Papaconstantinou
The title of the exhibition refers to Sylvia Plath's poem “Mad Girl's Love Song” and makes allusion to the starting point and source of the exhibited works, in which the artist uses excerpts from poetry and prose written by female writers. Papaconstantinou’s approach is rather atypical: she could have produced thematic or artistic versions of the texts; instead, she opts for their manual transformation, in order to “make up inside her head” and ultimately deliver through combination –the interweaving of different excerpts– a visual perception of words and a new reading.
In terms of narrative, the exhibition unfolds into two sets of wall-mounted works, a four- part drawing and a bound work that draws from Virginia Woolf's diary entries when she was writing “Mrs Dalloway”. The exhibition ends as a description-narration and a part of the “workshop”, namely the editing process, is revealed to viewers.
