The Fumes of Mars

One of the deadliest wildfires ever recorded took place on 23 July 2018 just 30km from the historical centre of Athens in Greece. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire and her forthcoming book The Fumes of Mars combines her photographs with personal testimonies from other survivors, timelines, maps and reports. With these materials Angelopoulou attempts to weave together a collective narrative of the events to better understand the violent disconnect between her own experience and the ‘official’ account of the disaster in which facts were concealed and victims held culpable.