Mantas’ series emerges as a kind of microsociology of contemporary Greek space, urban and peri-urban, with gardens serving as the cause and pretext: running through residential front yards, shady ground floor parking spaces where the flora exists latently and green terraces. It highlights green as an indicator of inequality and class difference, in a society that adored concrete passionately, perhaps considering it as an element of rigid stability in a country trudging through constant uncertainties. Private gardens, at times a field of personal care that calms the gaze and at others an elaborate decoration or fig leaf of a brutal society, thus resembles a polyhedral reflection of our relationship with natural elements. And if these photographs often contain a vernacular perspective, it is because they emerge a sample and representation of Greece’s flesh.

Hercules Papaioannou
Nea Messimvria
Nea Messimvria
Exohi
Exohi
Kalamaria
Kalamaria
Oreokastro
Oreokastro
Diavata
Diavata
Ippodromio
Ippodromio
Nea Moudania, Chalkidiki
Nea Moudania, Chalkidiki
Panorama
Panorama
Filiro
Filiro
Panorama
Panorama
Neo Rysio
Neo Rysio
Ano Ladadika
Ano Ladadika
Vyzantio
Vyzantio
Nea Krini
Nea Krini
Nea Krini
Nea Krini
Kalamaria
Kalamaria
Kalamaria
Kalamaria
Toumba
Toumba
Angelochori
Angelochori
Agios Mammas, Chalkidiki
Agios Mammas, Chalkidiki
Dionysiou Beach, Chalkdiki
Dionysiou Beach, Chalkdiki
Afytos, Chalkidiki
Afytos, Chalkidiki
Stavroupoli
Stavroupoli
Kalamaria
Kalamaria
Nea Kifissia
Nea Kifissia
Thermi
Thermi
Trilofos
Trilofos
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