Evangelia Moschou

unORTHOdox

2022

Collaboration with Maria Effrosyni Varsami

unORTHOdox charts a journey in search of a specific silence. The work traces a path from the city’s restless margins, through the vacant lots filled with the broken grammar of industry, to the quiet geometry of a cemetery.

This silence is not empty; it is receptive. Here, discarded objects begin to speak. Marble scraps, rusted iron, a plastic bag lodged in the soil. Collected by hand, these fragments are reassembled into a quiet cartography: an abstract map of the area traced with its own found materials.

From this listening, four site-specific interventions emerged:

• The Taxi: A marble sentinel placed among the skeletal remains of dumped cars in a forgotten backyard.
• The Highway: A totemic sculpture of gathered highway debris, a fleeting monument visible from the rushing stream of traffic.
• The Field: Discarded trash bags, momentarily adorned with wildflowers, transforming neglect into a brief offering.
• The Cemetery: Flowers distributed among abandoned children’s graves. A transient act of remembrance, left to be carried away by the wind of the following day.

Together, they form a series of quiet testaments, an attempt to listen to what a place whispers, to honor forgotten things, and to plot a different set of coordinates for memory itself.