At the entrance of the Municipality of N. Ionia, in Attica, among dozens of gray buildings from the exhaust gas, the traffic jams now face every day an impressive work of art. A graffiti of tens of meters created in the heart of N. Ionia and reminds of fate of thousands of refugees who left Central Asia a hundred years ago and ended up in Greece. To build their own houses and households from scratch.
The impressive work was done on his own initiative Metropolitan of N. Ionia Gabriel. He ordered from a young artist, George Dimoulas, who signs as Simple G, to work for many, many nights until he gives, as the metropolitan says, “a soul on a wall. To evoke memories and remind the story of these people who live in our city “.
Every night, Simple G, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts and a well-known graffiti artist, turned the wall into a work of memory and art. Graffiti depicts the pain, separation and tragic history of refugees that even a century later comes back to the fore again and again. The graffiti is framed by the burning Smyrna and with it the historical presence of the Greeks in the area is slowly disappearing.
This initiative is part of the events of memory and honor to Hellenism in Asia Minorwhich was violently uprooted from the ancestral homes in 1922 and is organized by the Diocese and the refugee Municipalities of N. Ionia, N. Philadelphia, N. Chalkidonos and Heraklion.
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