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Silent Witness – Traveler
2023
Location: Crete
Competition entry: Art Prize 2024 G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation
An art installation In collaboration with Panagis Marketos
Design team: Lida Badafareh, Panagis Marketos, Mehrshad Atashi
Through a temporary intervention, our design unfolds a narrative of hidden nature, transforming the hotel corridor, into a theatrical stage where travelers become performers in an ongoing narrative, wandering in this enigmatic landscape for leisure and curiosity. The Travelers staying in the rooms along this corridor find themselves stepping into a passage. On one side, a door leads back to her room; on the other, the wall reveals a scene evoking familiar moments in nature—the transition from dusk to dawn, the quiet serenity of light filtering through trees. Scattered throughout the space, peep boxes rest on stones, drawing travelers' attention. Curious, they peer inside and are immediately captivated by the world revealed to them.