One Shade the More, One Ray the Less

Installation View, MyGallery, Madrid. 2024


...The recent series of figurative paintings engages in decoding the meta-language of fashion contained in the contemporary representations 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 fictional 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....