Artem Trofimenko is an Irish-Ukrainian artist based in Cork whose practice spans film, performance, sound, and photographic installation to explore the poetics of displacement — how memory and perception inhabit the body, and how the act of seeing becomes a form of exile. Working with analogue film, darkroom processes, and found light — “naturally occurring illumination that reveals itself through chance” — Artem traces invisible currents between landscape and the inner world. Rooted in the experience of migration and in-between identity, their work dwells in the space where language falters, where gestures, images, and materials carry sedimented histories of loss, belonging, and becoming. Film is approached as a tactile surface — something to be touched, scratched, and breathed through — while performance reintroduces the body as a reactive, sensing site.

Artem graduated with a BA in Fine Art from CCAD in 2018 and is a studio member of Sample-Studios (Studios of Sanctuary, 2025) and a technician at Cork Film Centre. They have received Arts Council Agility Awards in 2021 and 2024. Artem is currently developing Radio Silence, a cross-border research project between Finland and Ireland supported by NEMO – Northern European Mobility Opportunity. Recent projects include Falling in Grace / Rising Matter, exhibited at GOMA, Waterford (2025). Their films have screened at STAMP Festival, 9.57 Festival, Out Of Focus, and IndieCork, while performances have been presented at Gallery X (Dublin), La Briche Audio (France), Cinesalon (Cork), and Spazio Nu (Pontedera, Italy). In 2025 they completed a residency at Pedvāle Art Park, Latvia, where they developed the short Super 8 work A Ladder on the Edge of Living, and will present a new performance, /f/XILE, during a residency at Sirius Arts Centre in January 2026.