SITE
Fondouk Ben Ghorbel
ROOTS — IT BEGINS WITH WATER
Video Essay, 5’38 min
2025 (site-specific adaptation)
In the video essay ROOTS — IT BEGINS WITH WATER, Amira Chihaoui explored the fluid continuum between organic life and digital materiality. The work traces the flow of water through rivers, seas, and plant systems as a metaphor for livelyness, connectivity, and transformation.
Drawing on the textures and rhythms inherent to the element in motion, Amira developed a visual current that drifted between natural patterns and digital distortion. Imagery of gently moving water, spreading mycelium, and growing roots gradually dissolved.
Through the technique of stretch, glitch, and data moshing, her visuals bend and dissolve into color, texture, and frequencies. The artist explored the aesthetics of digital manipulation, software failure, and technological error, converging nature’s flow and digital disruption into visual poetry.
BACKGROUND
Amira is a visual artist based in Tunisia, her practice explores contemporary themes through painting, installation, and participatory art. She’s interested in how art intersects with public space, social engagement, and community storytelling.Her work often draws on environmental, feminist, and cultural narratives, with a focus on the experiential and collaborative.
EXHIBITIONS
2025 London (uk), SHUBBAK Festival
2025 Tunis (tn), MEDINA DE LUMIERES
2024 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project
2023 Gabes (tn), NO NAME STUDIO – Danseurs Citoyens Sud
BIO
Lives in Tunis
LINK
SUPPORT
SHUBBAK London c/o British Council
FEATURED IMAGE
Amira Chihaoui. SEE DJERBA Houmt Souk 2025. Photo: Wassim Ben Aissa.