The Woman Who Gave Birth To Herself is an installation of works on paper by Irini Karayannopoulou. Scale is one of the means the artist uses to enhance the power of her refreshed characters, as they emerge from the pages of outdated fashion magazines. Multi-level metaphors charged with ideological and political subtext emerge as the artist enlarges these revisited images, charging them with spiritual allure. In this transformation game, Irini Karayannopoulou explores the fringes of mainstream culture, via the transfiguration of her protagonists. In The Woman Who Gave Birth To Herself, the artist dives into a sea of low-brow printed matter and brings to light her own creative process of reactivating ready made images as though they actually had a secret, inner life, waiting to be lived.  

Kosmographe, 2019