An interdisciplinary artist and set designer
whose work focuses on both research and
interior architecture formats.
UGLY BEACH
Wrong Norma, Nieuve Insituut
MIARD, Rotterdam, 2025
Ugly Beach is a multimedia work, which, through a sculptural installation and a video projected on it, explores the notion of the “beach” not as a curated paradise, but as a space holding a series of contradictions with regard to discourses on privilege, exclusion, and ecological instability.
Inspired by a disorienting encounter with yellowish sea foam in The Hague, the project questions dominant beach aesthetics shaped by massive tourism, media and exploitation of resources. The sea foam, a material present both physically and as a parable becomes a symbol of resistance to postcard-perfect imagery. Through its formless, uncanny, almost intoxicated appearance and through its chemical trace in the seas and elsewhere, the sea foam turns into an alternative discourse, a comment on the idealisation, appropriation and abusive extraction of lands, human sources, natural phenomena.
The installation uses unstable materials such as agar-agar, foam and seawater to reflect on the constantly changing, untamed properties of foam and the complexity that the beach both as a concept and as a haptic context, carries. Projected on translucent curtains the image of the beach comes together with soundscapes and 3D prints, in order to create or transcribe a surreal landscape in which human bodies dissolve into the environment, in the exact same ways that both geopolitical and psychosocial agency dissolves when peripheral lands are abused, occupied or forced into a space that they never were, or they can’t support.
Ugly Beach is a work that, through the slime or irritating aesthetics of seafoam, reclaims ugliness as a lens to confront the hidden, often oppressive or exploitative systems - ecological, social and political - that often reside under the idyllic image of the beach.
Entanglement
Possible and impossible forms of entanglement between fauna and flora, human and non-human beings, are themes explored not only by creators of legends (in the past) or conspiracy theorists (in the present), but also by those engaging with speculative fabulation.
Donna Haraway, a biologist and one of the most influential feminist philosophers, defines this type of narrative as “templates for possible worlds and patterns for the kinds of times we might live in; material-semiotic renderings of worlds that have been, are, or might yet be.
Curated by: Zofia Małysa-Janczy
Text by: Zofia Małysa-Janczy
Rondo Sztuki
Katowice, 2025
Lullaby For Depressed River Mussels
MIARD, Rotterdam, 2024
The sound installation project, based on research, aims to create a lullaby for the endangered Depressed River Mussel. Human intervention and water regulation in the Biesbosch National Park, combined with noise pollution from ferries and motor vehicles, greatly affect freshwater mussels, which depend on clean, oxygenated water and stable sandy beds.
Research shows they are highly sensitive to anthropogenic noise, with low-frequency sounds causing stress, though they respond positively to natural sound. The installation uses hydrophone recordings of ferry noise and crushed mussel shells, combined with a sung folk lullaby, to create a poetic, ASMR-inspired experience. Sensory buttons made from latex shell casts trigger sound changes via Arduino, played through waterproof speakers hidden in 3D-printed shell boxes. A hydrophone allows to engage with the mussels' perspective, exploring a speculative experience.
The Tunnels Do Not Echo
*Therapeutic incubation (enkoimesis) was a multifaceted religious phenomenon in Ancient Greece and a widespread practice based upon a deliberate act of sleeping and dreaming in sanctuaries dedicated to the god Asklepio - the father of the goddess Hygiene (Health).
(From Architecture of Healing, Milina Ivic).
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LivingRoom Gallery
Athens,2024