I'm a Junkie (excerpt)

Chiara Fumai

2007

video 2'48", color, sound, language: Greek

In the middle of a Greek field, the artist, dressed in traditional clothes, fakes a performance by stealing the words of 1930s singer Roza Eskenazi. The angelic song is “Eimai Prezakias” (I’m a Junkie) speaks of beauty and happiness of a drug-addicted life. In 1936, the Greek government banned the audio track used in this video, and yet, it is also now considered part of the National Artistic Patrimony.