Across Her Body

Every July 31st Mrs Irene and the other remaining fifteeners return to the obsolete Monastery of the Accession on the island of Therasia the little know twin sister of cosmopolitan Santorini For fifteen days they stay at the empty cells of the Monastery preparing it for the celebration of the Accession and praying for eternal rest of their beloved ones In between they recall past glories of the tradition of Fifteen while gazing at the touristic traffic across Santorinis volcanic bay ACROSS HER BODY questions issues of faith identity and gender by correlating three distinct bodies the unspoiled body of the Virgin Mary the deserted body of the once upon a time fertile Therasia and the aging female bodies of the fifteeners Its an homage to an archetype of Greek motherhood that was common place in the post war society and is becoming obsolete in modern Greece