Agnes Questionmark

About
Agnes Questionmark (Rome, Italy, 1995) is an artist working across performance, sculpture, video and installation. Her practice examines the self's boundaries through genetic experiments, surgical operations and artificial reproductive processes whereby identity becomes unsettled. By forcing her body and her audiences into spaces where humanity fails to assert its normative demands, Questionmark disrupts the biopolitical implications of transgender and transpecies bodies in a human-dominated world.

Artificiality is the means through which one can assert its identity, at the looming cost of entrenching its survivability with the medical, economical, and political system. Through incessant artificial reproductions, "biological order" can be transformed and reshaped with destructive consequences. Questionmark's work questions the morphological and conventional rules of a normative society dictated by a constant process of artificial transformations, self-surgeries, and body manipulations; a deterritorialization of the body in its "original" and "natural" form. The power relations of doctor-patient, science-nature, and human-machine, are subverted with a queerezation of the body which has turned itself into its own experiment: pathologized, hospitalized, and mechanized.

Recent long-durational performances include CHM13hTERT (2023), presented in a public train station at SpazioSERRA, Milan and TRANSGENES/S (2021), presented by The Orange Garden and Harlesden High Street in London. Her work has been shown at Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; MAXXI Museum, Rome; Malta Biennale, Valletta; Konig Galerie, Berlin; and the 14th Gwangju Biennale. Her writing has been published DRY, Speciwoman and NERO Magazine. Questionmark is currently working on a project for the 60th Venice Biennale and pursuing an MFA at Pratt Institute in New York.