In the summer of 2015, I arrived in Athens one day prior to the announcement of the “Bailout Referendum” and left three days before its execution. During the week I spent in Athens I was able to witness some of the immediate reactions uttered in the streets of the city via graffiti slogans, posters, stencils and murals – almost exclusively in favor of the Oxi vote.
Here are some of the expressions that I documented.
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These graffitied Oxis appeared at the Doukissis Plakentias metro station on the very night of the announcement of the Referendum.
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Two artworks by graphic designer N_Grams show a now iconic European Union flag with a single red star and the word nein written in the center. One of them can be found in the central neighborhood pf Psirri…
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…the other one is in Kallithea, just outside the Athens School of Fine Arts.
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Many slogans appeared in the center of the city in the context of the first Oxi rally on Syntagma Square. This one reads: Always No and Antifa
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A graffiti slogan associated with the leftist party Antarsia on the building of the National Academy reads “A proud no to EU-IMF”
All photos by Julia Tulke. More impressions from my latest visit to Athens can be found here.