storytelling by Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou
"The Matriarch's Fluff" is a video work that intertwines threads of the grandmother figure, intergenerational bonds of matriarchy, and the materiality of memory. This tangible and poetic exploration of histories and ancestry suggests a tactile connection between past and present, utilizing old photographs of my grandmother, great-grandmother, mother, and aunts. These family archival photographs, imbued with profound historical significance in Greece, are brought to life through artificial intelligence and transformed into abstract, achronic fuchsia fur.