“Who owns the sand?” explores the Athenian coast, revealing it as a highly politicised landscape, full of contradictions and rapid changes, strongly affected by the privatisation of public spaces and touristic development. Beachgoers, locals, workers and others encountered at the coast, express their thoughts and feelings about what they witness.
Aurora Sappa
Aurora Sappa (b.1999, Italy) graduated in Storytelling from Communication Studies of the University of Turin with the thesis Casananda (2023) – a visual ethnography about the intercultural processes of repopulation of the Italian mid-mountain. She made her first short movie Shots (2022) for the project “Spaesamenti” – Borders Cinematographic Atelier. Since then, she collaborates with a small italian production house as a director, editor and screenwriter. She is currently an MA student of Anthropology and Languages of Images of the University of Siena. She is interested in the concept of landscape, communities and queer families, the rural world and the encounter between nature and human beings.
Gaspard Van Hamme
Gaspard Van Hamme holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. His main interests lie at the intersection of development, neoliberalism, and society-nature relationships. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. His research combines visual and political ecology approaches to investigate local life in the forests of the Congo Basin amidst increasing land pressure and changing environments.
Ioulita Toumazi
Ioulita Toumazi (b.1996, Cyprus) is an art theorist, curator and writer. She holds an MA in History of Art from UCL and a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Kent. Her current research revolves around postcolonialism, memory and language, especially in the Cypriot context. She has curated and co-curated various exhibitions and projects. Her latest in 2023 were ‘we can only begin to notice’ at NiMAC, ‘Clementine dies again’ at Pickle Bar and ‘P.S. x10’ at Garage art space. She was also the project manager of multiple cultural and artistic projects, like ‘The Broken Pitcher’ with Thkio Ppalies.