IMCA: Margaret-Catherine Perivoliotis

Name: Margaret-Catherine Perivoliotis
Country Of Origin: Greece
Country Now Residing: Greece
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Human displacement is a cruel action no matter how it results. The great relocations of people caused by war, famine and of the global economy, desperate search for work, produced refugees, packed into big cities. One of the world’s most important challenges which has to be faced at the beginning of the 3rd Millennium is the protection and well being of people forced to live outside their homelands or habitual places of residence.

My work presents what has remained from an ancient Greek nomadic tribe, the Sarakatsanes. who lived on the green mountains of northern Greece centuries before Christ, in handmade huts, built at different locations for winter and summer.

After WW2, and mainly after the 70’s, the Sarakatsanes descendents were forced, due to economical reasons such as unemployment and educational isolation, to gradually leave their habitual life interwoven with the land and become packed into big cities, becoming immigrants within their own country, thus losing their own long lasting cultural identity. Their huts, pieces of human creativity and traditional beauty are the only things left to remind us of the life these people used to live, of what they had and what they have now lost.

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