Unfolding languages and cities: Georges Salameh in conversation with Rabab El Mouadden

A poetic dialogue of identity: Visual artist Georges Salameh navigates the Mediterranean’s dark blue waters through his multilingual lens, offering an intimate portrait of Athens before the economic crisis and reflecting on how precarity shapes both artistic expression and urban landscapes in constant flux.

Georges Salameh is a Greek-Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist. He studied Cinema in Paris at the University VIII St. Denis and since 1998 has created a series of videos, documentaries, experimental and essay films, and photographic installations. He has lived in many Mediterranean cities but is currently based in Athens. The recent book, HEAR YOU ATHENS (2021), is a correspondence between two friends who observed Athens during the period 1998-2006. In our discussion, he referred to the city as a lover. Since then, the city has changed as well as the way we experience and see it. In the following interview, Georges introduces us to his relationship with languages, the urban landscape, the crisis, and precarity through his own eyes, or even better through his lens.

Agios Panteleimon square, HEAR YOU ATHENS (2021)
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