Petra Szemán (b. 1994, based between NE England and Japan / born in Budapest, Hungary) is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. Their practice focuses on the murky borderlands along the arbitrary line separating real and fictional, and the kind of lives, experiences, and perspectival systems that are possible there. Turning away from thinking of the cyberspace as a radically ’other’ realm, Petra hopes to walk the line situated between dystopian and utopian frameworks, eyes set on new queer horizons. Their work has been exhibited at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead); NTT InterCommunicationCentre (Tokyo, JP); Seventeen Gallery (London); The Photographers’ Gallery (London); as well as various galleries across England, Continental Europe and East-Asia. Petra is the co-editor of the book WEEB THEORY, a joint animatic endeavour with Jamie Sutcliffe, published by Banner Repeater (London, 2023).