Inhabiting Imperfect Replicas
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team Sofia Sofianou
EMST, Athens 2021
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team Sofia Sofianou
EMST, Athens 2021
“Inhabiting Imperfect Replicas” project investigates the impact of the Parthenon on the Western world through the reproduction of its image, which constitutes a symbol of the world values of excellence, democracy and art.
Thanks to the spread of its image and its influence on the history of architecture, Parthenon is the most copied architectural work in the world.
Most of the examples are though imperfect copies of the Parthenon’s form.
The "replicas " ignore the color details of the original, while often distorting the exact proportions, scale, visual refinement or construction materials.
Representation, in contrast with image, is connected with the rendition of meaning and the “construction” of a specific perception on reality.
The representation of the Parthenon is historically associated with the depiction of ideas and the construction of an image that are subject to ideological and social factors, while in architecture it is often associated with modernism.
The deconstruction of the image of the monument itself but also of its new representation, attempts to reinterpret and overturn the symbolic function of the image of the Parthenon through the notion of inhabiting.