The exhibition, which is organized in conjunction with the anniversary exhibition of the TIF “AEN… in Ionia, Thrace and Pontus” in the pavilion of the Nations – Pavilion 6 of the TIF
The braid of a little girl, which… was separated by force, in order to enter the sanatorium in Karabournaki, in Thessaloniki, is only one of the 126 authentic objects hosted by the exhibition of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, “1922 – 2022: Waves of refugees – memory alloys”, at the 86th TEF, which is part of the “Anniversary Tribute 1922-2022: 100 Years of Memory”.
Objects, collected from 21 clubs in the country, but also from personal collections, from the keys they took with them, leaving their homes – and with the hope of returning – to a jar from which they drank water on the refugee ships and from costumes , underwear and wedding dresses, up to an image split in two, which arrived in Greece wrapped in sheets so that its owners could pass it undetected.
The exhibition, which is being organized in conjunction with the TEF’s anniversary exhibition “AEN… in Ionia, Thrace and Pontus” at the Pavilion of the Nations – Pavilion 6 (Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis also visited it today), concerns “what he considered important to take each refugee with him”, Melina Papadopoulou, who together with Irini-Margarita Tzemopoulou, signed the curatorship, told APE-MPE.
What would you take with you?
The tribute, closes interactively, with a question that brings the visitor to the present day, who, through a game on the screen, is invited to think and answer what he would take with him, if the same thing happened to him.
The results of this action will be used on the exhibition page https://100hroniamikrasia.gr, which will be constantly updated.
The exhibition will travel to schools and for this purpose a museum case has been created, which contains an original fairy tale and a puppet show.
The exhibition includes a parallel exhibition by the teaching group of the printmaking department of visual and applied arts, of the School of Fine Arts of the AUTH, under the supervision of Professor Xeni Sahini. Many of the matrices of these works are located in the space, so that they are accessible to people with visual impairments. There are also options for audio tours and Braille texts.
Fifteen minutes of history and emotion with image, artistic speech and original music
The “Anniversary Tribute 1922-2022: 100 Years of Remembrance”, begins with an original audio-visual spectacle, entitled “Aeon… In Ionia, Thrace and Pontus”, which is organized by TEF-HELEXPO, in collaboration with the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece and the Network of Cities with communities of Greek descendants throughout the East. With the use of new technologies, the exhibition offers the visitor an impressive and moving 15-minute spectacle, during which the history of the Greeks of Asia Minor unfolds and their journey to the final uprooting. “It is a narrative journey with a lot of imagery, artistic speech and original music”, explains the curator of the tribute, Maria Syllopoulou.
“Beyond the 100-year anniversary of the 22 refugees, we want to emphasize that these refugees were also the human fertilizer to make Greece what it is today,” he emphasized during the opening of the exhibition, at noon on Saturday. the president of TIF-Helexpo, Tasos Tzikas.
Moved, Deputy Minister of Development and Investments Nikos Papathanasis said after the tour, noting: “History must teach us how serious we must be, because we must not repeat the mistakes of the past.”
The cooperation of TIF-Helexpo, KEDE and the Municipality of Thessaloniki for the implementation of the tribute was underlined by the president of the Union, Dimitris Papastergiou, adding that with this tribute, TIF “highlights historical events, it does not forget and with this view it moves forward in the future.
The original music for the audio-visual spectacle was written by Giannos Aiolou. The historical curation and collection of archival material was done by Vlasis Vlasidis, or. professor of Modern Balkan History, PAMAK and the narrator is the actor Alexandros Nikolaidis.
The exhibition can be visited from 16:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, and from 10:00 to 22:00 on weekends.
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