In her multi-faceted oeuvre, Irini Karayannopoulou explores diverse media including painting, print, drawing and moving image. She often borrows imagery from the international press, in an open dialogue with the collective histories of popular culture, feminism and consumerism. The artist reappropriates and transforms images discovered in outdated fashion magazines, in ways that construct brand new systems of meaning. According to a Vogue Polska review by Marina Fokides: “In the form of a daily ritual, almost as a mantra, she searches, collects and selects pages and then personalizes them by painting a mask on the faces of female models but also on those of politicians or other kinds of celebrities. Those masks have an entropic effect contrary to what one would normally expect, as they do not seem necessarily to cover -or hide- true emotion but on the contrary to reveal and expose it.”
