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© IRINI KARAYANNOPOULOU
BY X E N I A G E O R G I A D O U
To 20/01/2022
REWRITING IDENTITY WOMEN POSING SEDUCTIVELY in erot-
ic French postcards from the 1950s, Las Vegas dancers swaying gracefully as the lens captures them for adverts, fashion models gazing sensually at the camera: all these women are present in Irini Karayannopoulou’s work. She draws on the pages of vintage magazines and adverts, and then prints the images, enlarges
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them, combines them using collage and draws on their faces again, until they acquire a new identity of sorts. “The Greek artist negotiates the manipulation of women in her own non-apologetic way,” comments curator Efi Falida. * “Irini Karayannopoulou / Hotberg,” Antonopoulou Gallery, 20 Aristofanous, Psyrri, aaart.gr
WINTER 2021-2022
