Artwork title : Hanging Gardens-tree

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My name is Tonia Avdelopoulou and I am a painter and an art director. Hanging around my city I was appealed by the big advertising billboards made of laminated textile.
As a set designer, I‘ve used many times such material as the background on tv sets, exhibition stands or even in advertising campaigns. They usually have a company logotype and a topic concerning the product. When the advert or the exhibition completes they end up in the waste.
I collected some of them as they seemed interesting in terms of colour and design.
And I transform them.
With tenacity and toil I changed identity to this symbol of consumption which commonly disfigures my city and in my way make it look beautiful.
So the Hanging Gardens were born.