L'anabase
2023-2024
Amorgos, Greece
L’anabase [ἀνάβασις] is an attempt to speak about exile through the language of the land. At the crosswords of documentary and fiction, a set of images, sounds, performances and installations are weaved together to tell the myth of an exiled icon.
L’anabase [ἀνάβασις - /əˈnæbəsɪs/] is an attempt to speak about exile through the language of the land. The Panagía Chozoviótissa Monastery (Modern Greek: Μονή Παναγίας Χοζοβιώτισσας) is an Orthodox monastery located on the island of Amorgós, in Greece. The 40-meter-high monastery was built into the side of a cliff, at an altitude of around 300 meters. It takes its name from an icon considered to be miraculous. The myth says that in the 9th century, the icon of a virgin mother travelled from the Monastery of Temptation in Jericho to the shores of Agia Anna to escape from the iconoclasts and that the monastery was built to worship and protect her. At the crosswords of documentary and fiction, a set of images, sounds, performances and installations are weaved together to retrace the icon’s journey and bring her two homes closer together.
exile, refuge
