[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Exhibition: December 4-14, 2015

[Dimitri H. Gondicas]

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies



Exhibition


Fragmented Knowledge


Nina Papakonstantinou

afp2 at princeton.edu<mailto:afp2 at princeton.edu>

Visual Artist

Artist-in-Residence, Hellenic Studies


Nina Papakonstantinou presents work completed during her residency at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. The drawings presented under the title Fragmented Knowledge are part of a series of works based on her research project The Lacunae in Ancient Greek Papyri: A Visual Representation. The exhibition also includes drawings from the on-going project Stacks of Books that the artist pursued at Princeton University.




"The work of Nina Papakonstantinou turns to the material of language itself, investigating the relationships between image and text, writing, trace and texture, as these are transformed and configured through the lines of the texts that she appropriates from various aspects of literature. The artist gathers the scribe's tools - such as, for instance, pencil, ink, blank paper, books, and carbon paper - to subject the (handwritten or printed) text to a continuous translation process, from its manual, painstaking editing to its digital or mechanical reproduction. The extensive transformations of the body of texts, which she attempts through the practice of drawing, by copying, tracing, inscribing, piercing, enlarging, scattering and assembling texts, and manipulating illustrations from fairy tales and short stories, are suggestive of her reflections on narrative and fiction, communication and its concealment, trace and gesture, time and memory, language and, through it, imagery."   [Tina Pandi, Curator, Exhibition Catalogue Instead of Writing, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011, Athens, Greece.]


Scheide Caldwell House Lobby



Opening: Friday, December 4, 2015, 3:00 p.m.



Exhibition will remain open through Monday, December 14, 2015





Supported by The Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund

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