Johnna Sachpazis is a visual artist from Athens living and working in London. They graduated with distinction from the MA Fine Arts at Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London), and hold a BA in Photography from Middlesex University, London. Drawing from their experiences as a non-binary person, they seek to explore the materiality and becoming of the queer and trans body, through concepts such as trauma, embodied memory and post-humanism. They work between photography, sculpture and painting, creating post-Frankenstein figures based on the work of Susan Stryker. Using the monster as a metaphor for the trans experience, their artworks aim to highlight and transform the marginalized affective discomfort gender-queer people often experience within normative patriarchal environments. The “monstrous” – as an ode to the monster – becomes a tool of resistance against social norms that reproduce bodily identities according to agelong dichotomies. Their work has been presented in group exhibitions held in various art spaces in London, including: the Saatchi Gallery, South London Gallery, Webber Gallery and Copeland Gallery. In Greece, they have exhibited their work at Space52 (online, 2020), a.antonopoulou.art gallery (Athens, 2019) and MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts (Thessaloniki, 2019). In April 2021, the Culture magazine of The Sunday Times included them in a list of “12 future stars of the art world you need to know about”. They have been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).