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Video installation of the AfroGreeks-prologue as part of the [a]known destinations chapter III: reconnection – a second chance exhibition accompanied by live events by the Nigerian community
09/09-10/10/2019 We Need Books library and St. Therese Catholic church, Kypseli, Athens, Greece
After the first public discussion and the screening of the video the AfroGreeks-prologue at the Kypseli Market, a neighborhood where most members of the African Diaspora in Athens live, an exhibition with a video installation followed, in places of particular importance in Kypseli.
In the context of the exhibition, director Menelaos Karamaghiolis and the Døcumatism team presented the AfroGreeks (2019), a documentary that was screened for three months in the premises of We Need Books, a lending library for immigrants on 7 Evia Street in Kypseli, where free Greek language classes are held. It was also screened at the Catholic Church of St. Therese at 32 Eptanissou Street, in conjunction with an event featuring the congregation’s choir.
the AfroGreeks explores the lives of the African diaspora in Kypseli through interviews with some of its first- and second-generation members. It brings to the forefront issues of social exclusion within the prevailing system, the difficulties they face, and the need for integration, while at the same time highlighting their struggles, aspirations, and dreams.
The works on display were created with the aim of giving a name and a voice to the “invisible” residents of this neighbourhood in central Athens, who claim the right to exist as Greeks of African descent.
