
FENIA KOTSOPOULOU
I move fluidly across disciplines, perspectives, and tools, navigating the body and performance as ever-unfolding territories of inquiry. My practice is an open framework—porous, rhizomatic—absorbing influences from daily life, encounters, memory, and fleeting moments that shape perception. I see no boundary between art and life; they merge, interweave, and pulse together, each feeding the other. The mundane and the extraordinary, the overlooked and the monumental—all leave traces, seeping into my work like echoes waiting to be translated.
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Having lived and worked in Greece, Italy, Germany, and the UK, I carry layered experiences—textures of cultures, languages, and histories. Movement across geographies has sharpened my awareness of both privilege and absence, gaps and possibilities. Conversations, formal and informal learning, experimentation, and daily encounters form a toolbox—one that is both personal and collective, constantly expanding, reshaping, resisting stasis.
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My artistic language is fluid, hybrid, and expressive, unfolding through performance, dance/instant composition, technology, video, photography, alternative image-making, experimental filmmaking, and site-specific improvisation. Through these mediums, I seek to transliterate emotional states, revealing the invisible forces at play within space, memory, and the somatic archive. My work lingers in questions of embodiment, transformation, and the ways identities—individual and collective—are constructed, fragmented, and reassembled.
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Central to my inquiry is the body: a site of tension and possibility, a gathering place of emotions, a vessel for remembering and forgetting. I explore the politics of gaze, intimacy, and touch, questioning how documentation itself performs—how it witnesses, alters, and extends a work beyond its immediate presence. This has led me to alternative approaches to archiving, crafting tactile, handmade books that resist conventional documentation, embracing materiality as a way of remembering.
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Collaboration is at the heart of my practice—not merely about others, but with others. Co-creation is an act of care, a shared process of imagining and resisting through creativity - inspired by the approach of VestAndPage (performance art) and Lena Sass (community arts).
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Influenced by feminist and queer ecologies, I challenge dominant narratives, seeking fluidity, impermanence, and shared authorship. My experimental, tactile image-making incorporates organic materials, light, and time-based processes, mirroring the ephemeral nature of human and non-human entanglements.
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Observation, experimentation, and critical reflection guide me. I move between mediums, across thresholds, always seeking new ways to reimagine, to re-embody, to translate. My work is an ongoing negotiation—between presence and absence, permanence and impermanence, the seen and the felt.
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Did I say?
I love mess
I love non-sense
I love labyrinths that lead nowhere
I love deviance