About:

Smaragda Nitsopoulou is a sequential visual artist, researcher and film director working in Amsterdam and Athens. Her research interests rotate around mnemonic representations of life and death in personal and collective frameworks. Her practice focuses on filmic narratives, whilst expanding the use of cinematic language to three-dimensional objects, aiming on speaking about psychosocial and geopolitical frameworks, visual culture and its discontents.  Through current vernaculars and quotidian structures, yet also by using found footage and natural resources for her installative, interactive pieces, she aims to evoke the ecumenical experience of absence among the living.

She has participated in several international festivals and art fairs such as Documenta 14, Slavonian Biennale, Larnaca Biennale, Video Art Miden and Simultan amongst others. Past fellowships and awards include the Artworks Fellowship (2018) and the “Improvisa-Life in motion “residency (Athens, Lublin & Ljubljana, 2020-2021). Her upcoming experimental short film “Tektite” has been funded by the Greek Film Center and the Greek Television Broadcast.