Loukia Alavanou will represent Greece at the International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia with a virtual reality 360° film and installation, titled Oedipus in Search of Colonus, inviting the public to travel through time and space.

The film links the cultural heritage of classical Greece – specifically the work of the playwright Sophocles – to the social realities of today by showing the desperate existence of Roma communities in the region of Nea Zoi, west of Athens. Working with a film team and using futuristic technologies, Alavanou casts Roma as actors in the third play of Sophocles’ Oedipus cycle.

This film and an accompanying sound work are presented in a dramatic yet intimate atmosphere within the Greek Pavilion, which becomes a self-reflective island in the middle of one of the world’s biggest international exhibitions. Art an impossible place. U-topia.

With the support of NEON Organization.