Young artist's Syntagma show impresses with symbolism

Informed visitors and passers-by at Syntagma Square in central Athens were treated to a rare sight on the night of April 27, as the lights went off suddenly on the Grande Bretagne side of the public plaza, and for a few minutes the hotel's facade became a huge screen for the "BedSheets" art project, an initiative conceived and realized by a young artist.

Using performance, painting, mixed media and a public intervention, as well as pioneering 3D mapping technology, Maria Fragoudaki presented a three-dimensional artistic experience unlike anything seen in Greece before.

The action started on a white bed on the pavement of the square, where the stars were the artist herself and her sister, Anastasia Argyriou, also a performance artist. It then expanded to the historic hotel's facade, as the bed sheet was briefly transformed into a fascinating image packed with...