Bilingual edition accompanying the first ever major retrospective exhibition for Leda Papaconstantinou, Time in my hands, organized and presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.
Leda Papaconstantinou, one of the most important artists in the history of contemporary art in Greece, developed, for over almost five decades, a diverse body of work that took on a range of forms – performance, sculpture, video, site-specific installations, painting, etc. – in order to explore issues of gender, sexuality, collective and personal memory, history, politics and ecology, centred always on the body.
As a trailblazing feminist artist and one of the most important artists of her generation, Papaconstantinou’s work is a seminal reference point for the Greek art scene and serves as an inspiration for subsequent generations of artists.
Informative texts and colour reproductions of the works exhibited are included.