Entering Avato

In this exhibition SNFPHI awardee Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos and Ionian Bisai) presents the outcomes of its project exploring the history and identity of Avato (literally, “a site that should not be accessed”), a village in northern Greece that is home to a long-standing Black community. Entering Avato features community members’ reflections on their history (usually traced to Ottoman slave trade) and places it in the context of national narratives, with the goals of acknowledging the extensive but often-overlooked story of Black presence in Greece and using the microhistory of a village to address issues of identity, whiteness, and belonging in the country today.

In collaboration with MOHA Research Center