Nefeli Kentoni (b.1998, Cyprus) is a London based director, writer, and visual artist. The theatrical and cinematic form have been the platform in which she negotiates and experiments the gaps between language and image, the implicit exertions that sustain the performer-viewer relationship, and the lightness/gravity of existence. Weaving together tenderness, absurdity, and humour, she dismantles reality and rebuilds it within unpredictable landscapes.
She has presented her work in Prague Quadrennial, Tate Modern, Barbican Centre, Cyprus State Gallery of Contemporary Art, NiMAC, The Place, Nicosia International Festival, Buffer Fringe, and Images & Views of Alternative Cinema. In 2020 she was Writer in Residency at the Tate Exchange, and in 2022 her short film “Fragility of Language” won the Screendance Short Film Competition at the 36th Leeds International Film Festival.
With recurring collaborators, they have created a common language of movement, aesthetic, and trust. Her work would not have been the same without them.
