​Join artist Eva Papamargariti for a free screening and conversation featuring a selection of her single-channel video works. Using computer-generated imagery, animation, and poetic visual language, Papamargariti explores the shifting relationships between human, natural, and technological bodies. Her works reflect on transformation, interconnectedness, and unsettling hybrid realities that emerge as information, identity, environments, and matter continually change in the digital age.

​The screening will be followed by a discussion between the artist and Gary Carrion-Murayari, the Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum. 

​This event is organized by Kelani Nichole as part of Open Worlds at Museum of the Moving Image.

​Room: Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room

​Free and open to the public, RSVP required.

​SCREENING PROGRAM

​Always a Body, Always a Thing (2016) 

​Duration: 15:25

​Always a Body, Always a Thing considers transformation and the fluid boundaries between forms and states of being. The work takes plastic as its starting point—a material that originates in nature and eventually returns to it as non-biodegradable waste, carrying traces of life, time, and human intervention. Commissioned by PCAI - Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative for the exhibition Paratoxic Paradoxes, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou.

​Precarious Inhabitants (2017)

​Duration: 13:12

​Precarious Inhabitants explores coexistence and transformation among humans, artificial intelligence, animals, and other organic or synthetic forms. The video unfolds as a dialogue between a human and a zoomorphic AI being, each examining the other’s roots, traces, and intentions. At times they experience unease and a sense of threat, yet moments of recognition and mutual understanding occasionally emerge. In these brief encounters, the fear of invasion dissolves, giving way to the possibility of a shared, interdependent ecosystem.

​But for now all I can promise is that things will become weirder (2018)

​Duration: 12:20

​But for now all I can promise is that things will become weirder reflects on the ambiguous sense of numbness that arises from the constant stream and rhythm of contemporary reality. Information, images, sounds, and events accumulate and overlap, blurring boundaries and creating a paradox of excess and uncanniness. Within this shifting flow, hierarchies of meaning and value collapse and get rearranged continuously.

​Strong, Feeble, Unfixed (2022)

​Duration: 03:25

​Strong, Feeble, Unfixed is composed as a visual poem, approaching notions of entropy, and “becoming” through a hybrid body that floats between the fragile and recurring conditions of decay and birth. Using CG animated elements and simulations, the body on screen sometimes resembles a human body, sometimes the body of a plant or tree, and in other moments a fossil-like structure from an indeterminate time. The work,  which has both Video and augmented reality elements, was commissioned by PCAI - Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative and was part of the show 'Sheltered Gardens', Athens, 2022.

​As they were drifting away, their bodies turned into waves (2021)

​Duration: 10:49

​As they were drifting away, their bodies turned into waves illustrates the relationship between bodies and the traces they leave behind as they float, sink, disperse, and get cast in and out of water. The work was first presented at “School of Waters” Mediterranean Biennale, 2021. The production of the video was supported by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

​Disappear Here (2026)

​Duration: 02:00

​Trailer for an upcoming project supported and produced by Onassis ONX and Onassis AiR.

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​Eva Papamargariti has a practice which spans moving image, printed matter, and sculptural installation. Her work explores the cognitive and affective relations between coexisting realities, focusing on the dynamic intra-connections and intra-actions that occur across these systems. The work often unfolds within suspended moments where the grotesque, fictional, and real converge, giving rise to hybrid and mutable worlds.

​Papamargariti’s research and practice engage themes of identification, metamorphosis, simultaneity, and the merging of physical and virtual environments. Using video, text, sound, motion capture, AR, CG animation, 3D scanning, character-creation software, sculpture, and textiles, her projects investigate becoming, liminality, techno-romance, and the symbiotic relationships between human and non-human agents. These explorations trace the entanglements and kinships that emerge from continuous interaction with technological and machinic systems.

​Her work also examines the processes shaped by online presence, including the construction and transformation of identity, the use of vernacular imagery and language, and the architectures of worldbuilding. Further attention is given to the marks inscribed upon objects and habitats through ongoing engagement with digital and material environments.

​Papamargariti has exhibited in institutions, museums, and festivals including the New Museum, Whitney Museum, Tate Britain, MAAT, EMST, Museum of the Moving Image, MoMA PS1, GAMeC, Pioneer Works, Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal, The Bass, Athens Biennale, Mediterranean Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale, MUTEK, and Transmediale. Residencies include the LUMA Foundation (2023), the New Now program at Zollverein (2023), Onassis AiR and Onassis ONX (2024-2025). Her work is held in public and private collections such as the Dakis Joannou Collection (DESTE Foundation), Onassis Foundation, PCAI Collection, and MOMus Collection.