By Maia Hamin

Photos by Matthew Miller

ATHENS, Greece — Just around the corner from a 900-year-old church, the graffiti-covered entry of Scholiou 4 gapes open. Inside, neon spray-paint eclipses murals on the walls and flies buzz around the trash piled in the rooms’ corners.

Decaying furnishings — a couch, an office chair, a lone traffic cone – dot the rooms. Sections of the roof and floor have caved in, revealing bright sky above and tarnished copper piping beneath. The conditions make it likely that, as an inscription on the wall promises, the “itinerant artistic project” that the building once housed has long since moved on.

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