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| Irini Karayannopoulou Welcome to Dwarfland No more fairytale, no Neverland, no Once upon a time. No more Snowhite, no prince, no apple (obviously no Adam and Eve or Garden of Eden), no bad witch, no mirror that tells the truth about beauty. Ultimately, no more fairytale about the Truth or Beauty. All we are left with is dwarfs, or rather giants that have been dwarfed. An army of dwarfs, a flock of dwarfs, swarms of dwarfs without a face, without individual character or characteristics. Irini’s dwarfs are not the fairytale’s benevolent and intolerably sweet little creatures whose laughter and hard labour fills the forest and the world with joy.On the contrary, they have all the malice which the ‘’once upon a time’’usually attributes to the giant, poured into their intentions and actions. And so, here they are, attacking each other and exhibiting all kinds of psychological and physical sadism. But more than that, whatever they do and whatever else they might appear to do later, Irini’s dwarfs have smashed their idols and themselves; they have turned the entire world into a ridiculous, albeit violent and mean, dwarf, that just stands there wearing nothing but a fool’s smile and a baby’s cap. This is not the ultimate or absolute image of the world as it is. Far from making or wishing to make such a claim, Irini’s dwarfs reveal that, put together, they make up a giant. This could be an image of the world as it is, if we were to consciously and critically reject the hallucinatory euphoria of the popular culture industry. Each dwarf could become a giant again. All of them together could make up a giant. But for the moment they don’t. For the moment, nobody’s innocent. And yet again, if we look carefully,we might spot the dwarfs that have thrown their baby caps away. Georgia Giannakopoulou  Download CV |  Welcome to the Dwarfland |
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