Lydia Antoniou is a curator, filmmaker, and researcher on feminist film collections, based between London and Athens. Growing up with grapheme-colour synaesthesia, she developed a curiosity and interest in utilising theoretical concepts for the production of space through collective storytelling processes. Approaching her architecture and curatorial studies from a feminist perspective, she identifies the urgency to potentialise contemporary art and cinema through the collective performing of social and spatial relations in a way that transcends the binary divisions currently dominating these disciplines. Drawing on and incorporating cult figures from experimental music and poetry, her work is primarily citational and participatory. Populated by friends and influences from her immediate community, her works often cite and incorporate co-creative and collaborative processes and ideas. Having worked in production for the past five years, oscillating between cinema and modern art, she decided to employ moving image as a medium of storytelling in order to construct non-male gaze narratives . In this direction, her two short essay-films The Wife of the Above and Za’atar works towards the construction of an intersectional space of invention and difference; one that would welcome a plurality unconstrained by a binary opposition to maleness. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).