Hera (?) drove a chariot with winged horses
2025
series of 20 unfired clay tablets
Installation photos from the group exhibition Encrypt at SODAS 2123 project space, Vilnius

This series of reliefs is based on the Parthenon metope drawings by archaeologist Katherine A. Schwab. Out of the clay I have gathered in Italian Apennines and Athens, I formed once again scenes of ancient mythological battles, translating the translation, leaving out what the grain of the clay couldn’t or didn’t want to depict.

The reliefs depict east metope sculptures (the earth-born Giants defeated by the Olympian Gods) and north metope sculptures (the Sacking of Troy and Trojan War):

• Parthenon East Metope 2: Dionysos, accompanied by a panther and snake, pursues a fleeing giant,
• Parthenon East Metope 5: Amphitrite drives a chariot,
• Parthenon East Metope 7: Hera drives a chariot with winged horses,
• Parthenon East Metope 10: Artemis drives a chariot,
• Parthenon East Metope 12: Aphrodite pursues a fleeing giant,
• Parthenon East Metope 14: Helios drives a chariot, ascending above Okeanos
• Parthenon North Metope 1: Athena brings a chariot to a halt,
• Parthenon North Metope 2: Two male figures descend from a ship,
• Parthenon North Metope A: Youth falls from a horse,
• Parthenon North Metope D: Man and woman flee to left (Rescue of Aithra?),
• Parthenon North Metope 25: Eros and Aphrodite protect Helen as she runs to a statue of Athena,
• Parthenon North Metope 28: Kreusa (?), Anchises, Aeneas, and Askanios at the moment of departure from Troy,
• Parthenon North Metope 29: Selene, the moon goddess, descends at the end of night,
• Parthenon North Metope 30: Two male figures,
• Parthenon North Metope 31: Zeus and a winged figure (Iris?).