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Irini Karayannopoulou

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“Aiming to create a multi-faceted oeuvre, I explore diverse media including painting, print, drawing, collage, AI and moving image. Often choosing to borrow imagery from the international press, in an open dialogue with the collective histories of popular culture, feminism and consumerism. I try to reappropriate and transform images discovered in outdated fashion magazines, in ways that construct brand-new systems of meaning.” A Vogue Polska review by Marina Fokides describes Karayannopoulou's work as following: 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.

solo exhibitions

Light Snacks and Heavy Make-Up | Joint exhibition in collaboration with Semiose gallery, Paris

Light Snacks and Heavy Make-Up | Joint exhibition in collaboration with Semiose gallery, Paris

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BIO

Irini Karayannopoulou (Thessaloniki, 1973) is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from the Saint Etienne School of Fine Art and Design. Recent exhibitions of her work include movie Avaton featured in Thessaloniki's International Film Festival, Salon de Normandy, Rare Books Paris, Paint, also known as blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, The Overview Effect, MOMus Museums, Thessaloniki, Playing Ground, Automatic Transmission, Athens and Screen Compositions, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York. Irini Karayannopoulou is a founding member of Twin Automat Films, her artist books are edited by Cube Art Editions and she currently lives in Athens, Greece. She was chosen as the only painter from Greece to participate in the Phaidon’s Press catalogue “Vitamin C”, which includes the artworks of over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by a team of art experts – an indispensable who's who of the most exciting and innovative names working in the medium.