Artem Trofimenko is a Ukrainian Irish artist based in Cork City. His practice encompasses moving image, performance, photography, and sound, employing the body through endurance and spirituality. He experiments with analogue film, darkroom processes, found light, and sound design.

Artem has a background in theatre and dance, including Butoh, which informs his engagement with various media and investigations of themes of displacement. He explores how memory and perception inhabit the body, as well as how the act of seeing constitutes a form of exile.

FXILE is a somatic exploration of the SIRIUS building and its surroundings. It features audio-visual elements and live outputs that examine the relationships among self and architecture, stillness and movement, and land and water. The works elicit moments of communion and departure, where lived experience and history intersect.

Saturday, 10 January
3-6pm
Free; no booking required

The presentation of FXILE includes a screening and a performance by Artem Trofimenko, followed by a conversation between Artem and SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado.

FXILE is commissioned by SIRIUS. The production of the work is realised with funding from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through the Regional Museum Exhibition Scheme 2025. In the context of the research and development of the work, the artist was also supported by Sample Studios through the Studios of Sanctuary scheme.