visual artist and filmmaker
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Los Angeles and Athens. Their practice moves across moving image, installation, performance, and sculpture, bringing together soft materials, 16mm film, archives, digital technologies, poetry, and speculative fabulation. Through affective and sensory worlds, they explore queer and trans forms of intimacy, transformation, and relation across bodies, histories, technologies, and environments. Their work asks how bodies made vulnerable, illegible, or out of place can create relations, worlds, and forms of survival otherwise.
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Transformation often becomes a way of refusing fixed identities. Antigoni’s work moves between myth, fairy tale, personal memory, and archival traces, bringing the past into an intimate relation with speculative futures. Time is approached as something felt through the body, shaped by desire, fantasy, and re-enactment. Humour and camp inflect the work’s sensuality, femme excess, tactile abundance, and erotic intensity. Softness operates as both a material practice and a conceptual method, drawing viewers closer while opening alternative possibilities for pleasure and belonging. Through multisensorial collaborations with lovers, friends, ancestors, robots, plants, and other more-than-human beings, their work creates spaces for play, rest, and desire. Antigoni understands transformation as a collective process, building temporary habitats that center the politics of interdependence and open more porous, erotic ways of being together.
Antigoni is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts & Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in LA. They hold an MFA in Media Arts from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and a BFA in Visual Arts and Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts. They have received numerous scholarships and awards, including support from the Fulbright Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, and the ARTWORKS Fellowship of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Their work has been presented internationally at venues and institutions including the Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol, REDCAT, UCR ARTS x LACMA as part of PST Art in LA, Gray Area in SF, Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Onassis ONX in New York, TRANSFER Gallery, NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf, the 6th and the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale, ATOPOS cvc in Athens, and the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, among others. They have collaborated with and worked alongside notable artists who have shaped their artistic path, including Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, La Pocha Nostra / Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and William Pope.L for his Whispering Campaign project at documenta 14.