Tassos Vrettos gradually assembled a photographic body of an idiosyncratic performative character and multiple anthropological and sociological signifiers. The work’s original material intersects with the history of LGBTQI+ and gender activism, with social claims to sexual liberation, with the right to pleasure and self-determination, with the rituals of desire, with precarious living and free expression, as they surface in public spaces which are organized and established in an improvisatory and unofficial manner; with an emphasis on the years 2005-2010 (from the extroversive, affluent years of post-Olympic Athens and the establishment of the Greek crisis), this photographic work reaches to today through differentiations linked to the dynamics of trans-visibility and the complexity of queer culture.

The work is presented, as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival 2021, in the form of a site-specific multimedia installation, within Hall A of Peiraios 260 and is the first part of a broader presentation of Vrettos’s body of work across different spaces and times, with the support of the NEON.