VICTORIA DEBLASSIE

Dimensions variable. Red paint, red glitter, found shoes. 2016.The project After 1945 is part of my series of site-specific street art sculptures made for the Lakkos neighborhood in Heraklion, Crete during an artist residency at LAKKOS AIR. I researched this neighborhood in order to create site-specific works that revealed something about the neighborhood’s history, architecture, daily-life, as well as the political climate in Greece in general. After 1945 references the time period directly after WWII and its devastating effects on the Lakkos neighborhood. Driven to poverty, many of the female residence had to resort to prostitution in order to survive. To comment on this history I painted the inside of a cabinet red with glitter and placed red shoes inside and it can only be seen when someone opens the cabinet, highlighting this history in order to reflect upon the destruction of war and its many consequences.