visual artist and filmmaker
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Los Angeles and Athens, Greece, and working across installation, moving image, sculpture, and performance. Drawing on queer and transfeminist thought, poetry, and speculative fiction, they explore how bodies and worlds transform through encounter. Softness in their work is both a material and a political practice, grounded in tenderness, relation, and a refusal of techno-capitalist demands. Through sensory and embodied experiences, they create liminal spaces shaped by intimacy, affect, and myth-making. Their work asks how we might inhabit time and space otherwise, making room for bodies that misfit, remain opaque, and envision new 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 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.