Mary Plant Retrospective at Palia Ilektriki Cultural Center, Paphos

Mary Plant: Mythographies
(3 September – 27 October 2022)

Mythographies, a retrospective exhibition of Mary Plant, opens on 3 September 2022 at Palia Ilektriki
Cultural Center in Paphos. The exhibition curated by Marina Christodoulidou and Marina Demosthenous,
and co-organized by the Deputy Ministry of Culture (Cultural Services), Paphos Municipality and Kimonos
Art Center, is the first to showcase the inimitable and multifold oeuvre of the Cypriot visual artist over the
last forty years.

The exhibition embarks from Plant’s early work, created during her studies in London and immediately
after. This line of work, on tissue paper, brings out tactility as the foremost expressive element and
establishes both discernible and indiscernible correlations with the writing process in its broader sense.
Writing, but also myth, manifested in Plant’s work from the very beginning, are innate components as well
as formalistic elements in her art, feeding into each other as the exhibition title suggests. Plant
approaches her work along an extended study process through which she puts together written and living
narratives whilst documenting multifaceted interpretations of myths.

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The exhibition will include a series of parallel events engaging the public. Research into the work of Mary
Plant brings to life a series of publications, one of which materializes in collaboration with Armida Books.

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PALIA ILEKTRIKI CULTURAL CENTER
8, Vladimirou Irakleous, 8010 Pafos

Curated by:
Marina Christodoulidou
Marina Demosthenous

Co-organized by:
Deputy Ministry of Culture (Cultural Services)
Paphos Municipality
Kimonos Art Center
www.kimonosartcenter.com
info@kimonosartcenter.com