Elpidos Street is the site of a performance by Regina José Galindo, in which the artist wears a dress kept by the family of a woman murdered in her native Guatemala. While the Victoria Square area is known also for its brothels, where women from outside Greece are often lured with promises of a better life, then forced into slave-like conditions, the performance takes place on a street that signals a more dignified dimension—Elpidos means “hope” in Greek.
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