visual artist and filmmaker
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Los Angeles and Athens, Greece. Their multidisciplinary practice spans installation, moving image, sculpture, and performance. Drawing on queer, decolonial, and transfeminist sensibilities, they explore how bodies and worlds transform through encounter, opening up other ways of perceiving, feeling, and relating. They approach softness as both a material and a political practice, grounded in tenderness, relation, and a refusal of techno-capitalist demands. Poetry, myth-making, and speculative fiction shape the intimate, liminal environments they create. Charged with affect, their work invites us to inhabit time, space, and histories otherwise, making room for bodies that misfit, remain opaque, and envision alternative ways of being together.
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Antigoni’s work moves between reality and fiction, often drawing on fantasy, myth, and fairy-tale to address pressing political issues in poetic and allegorical ways. Through historical research, archives, speculative fabulation and re-enactments, past, present, and future collide in intimate and unexpected ways. They approach time as something nonlinear, felt through the body and shaped by desire and affection. Humour and camp inflect the work’s sensuality, femme excess, and tactile abundance Softness operates as both a material practice and a conceptual method, drawing viewers closer while opening alternative possibilities for pleasure and belonging. Through collaborations with lovers, friends, family, robots, plants, and other more-than-human beings, their work creates unexpected conditions of encounter within spaces for collective play, rest, and empowerment. Transformation recurs in their work both as a method, through costumes or animation, and as an outcome of collectivity, relationality, and the felt experience of engagement. Refusing fixed identities, their work builds temporary habitats that center the politics of interdependence and open more porous, erotic ways of being together within many worlds.
Antigoni holds 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 are a Fulbright Fellow, a member of Onassis ONX, and a recipient of the Annenberg Fellowship at the University of Southern California and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS. Their work has been presented internationally, including at the Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol, REDCAT in Los Angeles, UCR ARTS in partnership with LACMA as part of PST ART, Gray Area in San Francisco, Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, TRANSFER Gallery, NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf, and the 6th and 9th editions of the Thessaloniki Biennale in Greece.