Luna is a body of work created during Irini’s residency with ISTANBUL’74. In her exhibition at Clubhouse Bebek, the artist interconnects show business relics and mythology. During her three-week stay in Istanbul, she discovers her materia prima in the city’s antique shops, flea markets, and private collections. Multi-level metaphors emerge as she enlarges and reactivates outdated, mostly black-and-white images. Magazines, film posters, and vinyl record covers are turned into allegories or psychedelic dreams. Female emancipation is being negotiated. Mermaids, chess players, beauty queens, cinema and music superstars form an elegant army of women with lust for life and for equal rights. The artist’s approach not only blurs the lines between beauty stereotypes and female empowerment but also breathes new life into the representation of the female body.

Throughout these works, the moon’s shine is omnipresent. Finally, she enables women from a bygone era to transcend time and space with newly obtained identities, and why not, new superpowers.