ACE - Petra Szeman

Petra Szeman

I am a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. My practice focuses on the murky borderlands along the arbitrary line separating real and fictional, and the kind of lives and experiences that are possible there. I explore liminal spaces and threshold situations, looking to dissect the ways our memories and selves are constructed within a landscape oversaturated with fiction. Turning away from thinking of the cyberspace as a radically ’other’ realm, I hope to walk the line situated between dystopian and utopian frameworks, eyes set on new queer horizons.

I am a BA Fine Art graduate from Newcastle University (2013-2017), and have exhibited since at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, NTT InterCommunicationCentrein Tokyo, as well as various galleries across England, Continental Europe and East-Asia. I am the co-author/editor of WEEB THEORY, a book about the overlapping area between artists’ moving image, games and anime (published by Banner Repeater, London 2023). Petra is a lecturer in the Fine Art department at Newcastle University.