Agnes Questionmark invites audiences into her personal and artistic process of becoming. Growing up with a close connection to the sea through her father, a sailor, she recalls:
“One day, when I was eight years old, he gave me a little oxygen tank and said, ‘Jump… you can go under the water.’ (…) I still remember that was the strongest experience ever. It was a cathartic moment, at a very early age.”
She began with underwater performances, breathing through a long hose, where physical strain informed her approach:
“This underwater experience is both positive and negative… the two aspects in my performances.”
In 2021, she undertook the 23-day performance TRANSGENESIS, embodying a mother octopus while taking hormones in real time.
“As a queer person, we are deemed as monsters… I consider myself as a monster without really being able to fully be one.”
Despite addressing gender and biopolitics, her work retains humor and beauty:
“It’s not always a tragic, sad experience being trans. Yes, it’s quite tragic sometimes, but it’s also fine. We need to make it fun… we can make surgery fun… body modification beautiful.”
Agnes Questionmark (b. 1995, Rome) is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Her practice explores the limits of the body and the instability of identity through speculative genetic experiments, surgical interventions, and artificial reproductive processes. By placing herself and her audiences in spaces where conventional notions of humanity break down, she challenges the biopolitical norms surrounding transgender and transspecies bodies.
Her work has been presented internationally, including at the 60th Venice Biennale, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, MAXXI Rome, and the Gwangju Biennale. Her writings appear with NERO Editions, which published her first book, QuestionGen (0.00022ml).
Agnes Questionmark was interviewed by Astrid Agnes Hald in her studio in Rome in October 2025.
Camera: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan and Astrid Agnes Hald
Produced and edited by: Astrid Agnes Hald
Sound Design, Transgenesis: Portamento
Music via Upright:
Dramatic Cascades — Glenn Cartier
Chant Saphique For Cello And Piano Op. 91 — Silvia Chiesa, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurizio Baglini
Oceanic Drone — Sebastien Billy
Requiem for Mamba — Andrew Lawrence Bloch, Gareth Williams
An Unexpected Stillness — Benjamin Mark Tatlow
Armida Lungi Da Te — Antonio Salieri
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