Latent Community

Lives and works in Athens, Greece

Artist statement

Latent Community is an artist duo based in Athens, founded in 2017 by the visual artists and filmmakers Sotiris Tsiganos (1992, Athens) and Ionian Bisai (1992, Saranda). They work with moving image in research-based projects as a tool to explore issues of social, political and ecological justice. Their interdisciplinary practice integrates extensive fieldwork with participatory strategies and performative sequences as means to render forgotten memories, to amplify unheard voices and to explore overlooked ecosystems. In their video-installations and hybrid films, Latent Community aims to bring new perceptions on the natural and digital entanglement facing the hidden dynamics of, reality and hyper-reality. Their work stems from the idea of an artistic investigation that responds to social, judicial and ecological cases through the production of conceptual and emotional experiences. Latent Community turns filmmaking into a shapeshifting platform that reflects the complexity and depth of our world, bringing together the real and the magical, the experienced and the unimaginable, the monumental and the deepest individual feeling. Using moving image as an apparatus to create new vision systems, they transform the camera into a performative tool which embraces a liquid relationality between both sides of the lens. Drawing from Mediterranean mythologies and the conflicts of the South, Latent Community is caring about finding new ways of imagining sustainable futures and exploring...

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