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AntiGonna
The main idea of the project encourages reflection on the value of one’s life and peace through the experience of refugees, for most of whom the problem arises in the inability to fulfill their aspirations and find happiness. This is a documentary and surrealistic research of the mental states of the artist due to the impact of the war, at the time on women who became victims due to military actions and the struggle between men for power.
Drawing parallels between the historical consequences from the past of the Roman Empire led by the tyrant Caligula to the present with the war of the russian empire that attacked Ukraine in 2022 and continues till today. The author makes a poignant point about how little has changed while ordinary people continue to suffer from the loss of livelihoods in a happy future.
The story tells about an ordinary young woman who runs away from the war in Ukraine and tries to find her place and adapt in the Venise, but a terrible post-war trauma prevents the heroine from realizing her dream to be a famous actress and even removing her human identity.
Under the artistic name AntiGonna and production AntiGonStaff is Oksana Andreieva (b.1986, Vinnytsia, Ukraine). She is an independent filmmaker, artist, actress and producer. Her practice spans experimental documentary, video art, VR 360, theatrical performance, photography, and installation, exploring the themes of fear, violence, death, and magical rituals through new perspectives on sexuality. Based previously in Kyiv and Warsaw, since 2022 she has lived and worked in Paris.
In AntiGonna’s art, porn horrors form a genre that combines elements of porn and horror in such a way that they neutralize each other’s consumer appeal. The aesthetics and narrative resemble rituals meant to tame the terror of existence by giving it a prop-like form. These rituals attempt to domesticate the horror of life, while also exposing hidden mechanisms of survival. Her practice also investigates the processing of personal identity, the comprehension of various aspects of sexuality and gender identity — hence, AntiGonStaff’s artistic activity is inseparable from working with trauma.
AntiGonna’s projects generally verge on experimental cinematography, performance and theatrical production, and sometimes employ media installations and photography. The main themes in her practice include fear, sex, and death in the public imagination. Her work is autobiographical, yet her imagery remains strictly metaphorical and used as a tool of expression. In her view, prohibitions and taboos keep public consciousness under pressure, but what they require is not concealment or condemnation, but the opposite — open discussion, allowing each individual to confront their own “self.”
