Vasiliki Antonopoulou
b.1990 Athens Greece, lives and works in London, UK.
She was born in Greece and raised in Saudi Arabia, two locations which re-emerge in his practice. Antonopoulou combines text, performance and moving image, to explore notions of displacement and otherness. These manifest in metaphors that create multiple layers delving into the emotional relationships that exists in particular spaces and architecture.
Using a sculptural language, his work queers the process of image editing by challenging the binary format of rough versus sleek moving image. Her outcomes, are visual poems that occupy a space in between where displaced images reflect the notions she works with.
He has exhibited internationally in institutions such as Mimosa House, London, 2019, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2018, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, 2018, Artnight London, 2018, NARS Foundation, New York, 2015 and the MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival in 2013. Her work has been featured in Frieze Review, and the Queer Direct Publication, among others.
Along with Zoe Marden, he was the co-director of the Queer Society of the Royal College of Art from 2017-18.
She was born in Greece and raised in Saudi Arabia, two locations which re-emerge in his practice. Antonopoulou combines text, performance and moving image, to explore notions of displacement and otherness. These manifest in metaphors that create multiple layers delving into the emotional relationships that exists in particular spaces and architecture.
Using a sculptural language, his work queers the process of image editing by challenging the binary format of rough versus sleek moving image. Her outcomes, are visual poems that occupy a space in between where displaced images reflect the notions she works with.
He has exhibited internationally in institutions such as Mimosa House, London, 2019, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2018, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, 2018, Artnight London, 2018, NARS Foundation, New York, 2015 and the MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival in 2013. Her work has been featured in Frieze Review, and the Queer Direct Publication, among others.
Along with Zoe Marden, he was the co-director of the Queer Society of the Royal College of Art from 2017-18.
Dry Trailer from Vasiliki Antonopoulou on Vimeo.
Dry
From the wear and tear of stone steps to the etchings of a teenager on a brick surface, Architecture can be read as an archive of human experience. Once replaced with glass, these histories become erased. ‘Dry’ uses coastal processes as metaphor to speak about ‘change’ and tries to navigate a ‘post evental’ space.
From the wear and tear of stone steps to the etchings of a teenager on a brick surface, Architecture can be read as an archive of human experience. Once replaced with glass, these histories become erased. ‘Dry’ uses coastal processes as metaphor to speak about ‘change’ and tries to navigate a ‘post evental’ space.
Vasiliki Antonopoulou, Dry (Triptych), 2020, Colour pencil on paper
View the triptych in detail below.
Vasiliki Antonopoulou, Dry (1), 2020, detail,
Colour pencil on paper 29.7 x 42 cm (each)
Vasiliki Antonopoulou Dry (2), 2020, detail,
Colour pencil on paper 29.7 x 42 cm (each)
Vasiliki Antonopoulou Dry (3), 2020, detail,
Colour pencil on paper 29.7 x 42 cm (each)
