Agnes Questionmark is an artist working across performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Cyber-Teratology Operation (2024) foregrounds a trans body (transspecies, transgender, transhuman) inside an operating room where everyone is under surveillance. Whilst the audience watches its internal movements, the subject’s eye is also a monitoring screen, as self and apparatus become one. Questionmark’s work addresses the transgender body as one that is often pathologised, mechanised, and hospitalised, illuminating the patriarchal biopolitics at play in science and healthcare. The installation problematises notions of perceived or expected artificiality for trans bodies by normative society and celebrates the emancipatory potential of a body-in- transformation that defies taxonomy through its own reclaimed process of becoming. It raises questions about the insistence on coupling gender with reproduction that still lingers today and wages a war on the scientific control exerted over bodies undergoing their own processes of deterritorialisation. Cyber-Teratology Operation oscillates between reality, fantasy, and more- than-human worlds, gestating futures and new neurons rendered possible if we dream and fuse otherwise.
This is the first time the work of Agnes Questionmark is presented at Biennale Arte.
—Kostas Stasinopoulos
