On April 10, 2014, after two warning calls, a bomb planted inside a stolen Nissan Sunny exploded outside the Bank of Greece in downtown Athens. The project revisits this event by utilizing publicly available audiovisual material from the explosion site, including CCTV footage and videos from live news broadcasts. It omits the sound of the explosion, focusing instead on minor, seemingly insignificant sounds not directly related to the event, such as a nose blowing, a phone vibrating, a car door closing, or a lighter clicking. These sound observations are recorded chronologically as they occur, composing a timeline in text form. This event has now ended (Nissan Sunny) presents 182 sound descriptions as closed captions at the bottom of the screen in a nearly seven-hour-long video, fully synchronised with the exact moments when the sounds are heard at the explosion site and during the live broadcasts.
Limited edition poster, numbered and signed by the artist.
On the occasion of the exhibition “Reconstructing Memories #1: For History” curated by Maria Lalou and Skafte Aimou-Bout.
