In a country trying to leave behind the hardships of a fifteen year long crisis and at the after math of the covid pandemic, the pursuit of renting a new apartment is as tedious as stressful. Year after year the housing crisis becomes more evident and affects more and more people that don’t belong to the untouched and complacent bourgeoisie. The notion of housing in general, perceived as pure commodity, is being normalised and dominates the public narrative fed by the neoliberal right wing status quo. The strategic direction of politicians to transform the country Europe’s tourist resort and foreign funds exploiting degraded property maximises the problem. In such a context trying to find an affordable place to stay in the city of Athens is at least disappointing and very often impossible. Overcoming the aforementioned socio-economical reality and in the case of finding a, let’s say, rare affordable and at the same time descent apartment, the candidate tenant succumbs to the home owners outrageous terms and has to compete in a disgraceful reliability contest among other “candidates”. The “Future will be different” is the counter reaction of navigating in such a process confronting creatively and documenting the period transitioning from the greek suburbs to the city’s center. Through self-portraiture, still life photography and some mixed techniques the work conveys the subjective and contemplative representation of the changing domestic environment but also the fragile psychological states. Preceding time, the days of the actual move and those that followed get subtracted from their ephemeral continuity and are being presented in a non-linear way as fragments of time and subjective experience. Referring symbolically to the way human memory functions, recalling selectively events, in the individual’s attempt to cope with specific traumatic experiences. At the same time, the photographs become documents of an underlying tendency for order in the chaos of such a process. Ultimately, photography serves as a meaningful mechanism for handling the fluid and challenging conditions of that period.
