Muzeon Experimental Centre
AntiGonna’s early video experiments were presented as installations, making the screen part of a spatial composition.
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Oksana — AntiGonna: 13
Oksana — AntiGonna: 13 combined an AntiGonna retrospective with a group exhibition of her collaborations under the AntigonStaff name. Video, performance, photography and multimedia installations at the Odesa Museum of Contemporary Art and Muzeon Experimental Centre explored fear, sexuality and the right to define one’s own image.
A retrospective and a group exhibition
Odesa Museum of Contemporary Art
The group exhibition brought together multimedia works by AntiGonna and her AntigonStaff collaborators. The exhibition opened on 12 March 2021.
Participants and collaborators
- AntiGonna
- Andrii Boyko
- Heorhii Babanskyi
- Daria Veshtak
- Vika Dovhadze
- Natalka Diachenko
- Dobrynia Ivanov
- Nikita Kadan
- Oksana Kazmina
- Sasha Kurmaz
- Ihor Makedon
- Serhii Zommer
- Alina Yakubenko
Exhibition sources: YourArtSecondary Archive
About the project
AntiGonna’s practice treats the body as a site where personal autonomy encounters social power. Working as both artist and model, she uses her own corporeality as an instrument: erotic and desiring, but also capable of becoming detached, deliberate and confrontational.
Fear, sexuality, death and the transition between extreme states recur throughout her work. The exhibition considers these themes against the stigma surrounding nudity and sexuality, asking what remains excluded from public discussion and how that exclusion shapes the bodily self.
Her collaborations with other artists reveal more than an individual image. They expose collective fears, inherited traumas and the taboos through which society regulates visibility. The curatorial reading follows the artist’s movement towards sexual freedom, equality and emancipation, without smoothing away the contradictions and discomfort that make this work urgent.