The Curse of The Eye

"We live now in an era, where everybody has the obligation to self-design." Boris Groys. 

...The recent series of figurative paintings engages in decoding the meta-language of fashion contained in the contemporary representations proliferated by social platforms is both intriguing and useful. It presents possibilities to discern between the various narratives that express collective cultural values and critically addresses the very process of constructing identity through image and fashionable props as well as the new imperative of self-expression, which became the new mantra of social media.

Pointing to those aspects of discontinuity between reality and the projection of style, Korini creates hybrid characters that function as proxies, as empty narratives in a state of alienation and hybridity, reduced to their act of the pose as form without content as abstractions. In all the compositions from the new series gathered under the title “The Curse of the Eye” the artist’s emphasis is always on the staged pose – not on the portrayed figure, while the abstraction in the background with its culturally charged elements is meant to support the association between the narratives...

Maria Rus Bojan

Installation View, Harabel Contemporary, Tirana (Al), 2023