Τhe work of Leda Papaconstantinou is a large scale installation, which will be completed in situ by the artist.
Made up of fragments of her parents’ lives and artefacts, the installation is a unique historical testimony of a family’s life course through the tumultuous 20th century. Works large and small, wood carvings, tools, memorabilia, paintings, small-scale sculptures, artefacts and fragments of the lives of Theodore and Litsa Papaconstantinou will be interwoven into a vast and unique mosaic of lives transformed by the ebbs and flows of Greek history. Living and crafting on the island of Spetses from 1966 for almost half a century, Theodore and Litsa Papaconstantinou exchanged one life for another in the wake of the Greek Civil War. They successfully turned the impasses of the era into an opportunity for renewal which they imbued with their inimitable spirit.
Leda Papaconstantinou interweaves her own works –old and new– into this large canvas, building a personal narrative out of three lives, shedding light on the relationships, forces and influences that ultimately shaped her too. With this show, a daughter honours the life, work and memory of her parents, who lived with wit, grace and inspiration and succeeded in finally turning their own lives into art.
Catalogue designed by Studio Lialios Vazoura. Text by Leda Papaconstantinou. Edited by Eleni Saroglou.
