Greek Apartment, 2012
In June 2009, Paola Ferrario spent a week in Athens. Responding to an ad on the web for a unit in a “modern highrise with a view of the Acropolis,” she found herself in a crumbling modernist building in a middle-class neighborhood. Oddly, this experience came just before the Greek economy began to fall apart, and the work—a grid of 36 images, titled "Modern Highrise With View of the Acropolis"--became an unwitting metaphor for vicissitudes to come.
