Film folders, scratches. Variable size
It exhausts my elbow is an investigation on uncertainty and the ‘naturalization’ of precarity. The sites I have been accompanying in this project enshroud multiple layers of entangled narratives and have been undergoing officially unregistered changes. Since 2016 I have been observing and recording on 16mm film several large-scale failed building projects in Attica, Greece, that were either convicted to ruination before completion or were abandoned after some years of business; the project traces their current new and unexpected uses. An incomplete housing scheme, an unfinished hotel complex from the Junta time, an abandoned cement plant, a derelict factory site by the port of Piraeus and a defunct drive-in cinema along the high-way to Athens, they are all re-animated by people who live, everyone in his/her way, in a state of temporariness, on hold. Suspended in space the 16mm footage ‘pauses’ and transforms here into slide and risograph constellations.