CYPHER

The title You Can’t Go Home Again, at first reading, suggests a negation and contains a prohibition. A photographic project, a book, a phase of life—however one might define it—it constitutes the deeply personal documentation of Antigoni Papantoni’s almost decade-long wandering between Greece and Switzerland, with multiple intermediate stops and displacements. A journey that moves from the excitement of the unknown and the “honeymoon phase,” to alienation, frustration, and ultimately the acceptance of a new condition. From not belonging to building a home capable of containing her. The photographs resemble an archive of lived emotions, organizing the way in which places have been inscribed within and inhabited her: a topography of the unconscious that gently traces the need for belonging, intimacy, and connection. The prohibition contained in the “not” of the title ultimately conceals an affirmation: perhaps there is no need to return home, because you are already there.