Irini Karayannopoulou
Elixir
Un diario di bordo ispirato a giornali e riviste italiane degli anni ’60 diffuso nel borgo di Polcenigo: figurine tratte dal mio immaginario, stampe e un film d’animazione. L’invito a partecipare a questo progetto è come il biglietto per un parco giochi sicuro, dove, dopo un lungo periodo in cui nulla era possibile, ora lo diventa. Una pozione magica, davvero una cura il mio elixsir
Irini Karayannopoulou, Elixsir, 2021, Polcenigo (PN), Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Ph. Federico Gallo
For Irini Karayannopoulou (Athens, 1973) international fashion and politics magazines, newspapers, and vintage and contemporary photos form the basis of her intervention through painting, collage, drawing and video, in an open dialogue with the collective stories of popular culture, aimed at building new semantic systems. Her practice is guided by both personal and political reflections. In 2020, she exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and in 2019, at the MOMus Museum, on the occasion of the 7th Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece.
Polcenigo is a village of 3,165 residents in the province of Pordenone, which is 18km away, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The territory is home to numerous examples of natural beauty: the Buco del Gorgazzo, the «Bus» celebrated by the words of anonymous poets and depicted by Luigi Nono; the Palù, one of the 111 European alpine pile-dwelling sites, named an UNESCO site in 2011; the sources of the Livenza and the «Santissima» rivers; and the S. Floriano park, an extraordinary environmental area and the only rural park in Italy.