DECUMANUS

The uncontrolled modernization of an age-old city is the frame of reference for Los Angeles-based George Kontos’ video essay Decumanus. Inspired from Aldo Rossi’s L’ Architettura della Citta, the video work revisits how in recent times recoding the minimum standards for building has quickly rewritten history and how many of Thessaloniki’s urban artifacts have disappeared. Decumanus looks dispassionately at changing expressions of Mediterranean urbanism in Thessaloniki.