SITE
WHERE THE TIDE REMEMBERS
Animation
2 x 1-Channel Projections
2025 (Premiere)
For “Where the Tide Remembers”, Liudmila Siewerski turned to the ASSIDJE archive, a vast collection of more than five hundred historic drawings, prints, and photographs of Djerba. She selected images of coastal landscape and boats on the water, a mosque functioning also as a lighthouse, iconic buildings, and characteristic landscapes, inland passages, and panoramas as raw material for her animations.
Rather than presenting these images in their original form, the artist broke them down to their smallest elements: the pixel, each no more than a fleeting point of light on a screen. Amplifying this microstructure of digital vision, Liudmila reanimated a selection of images as pixel clouds of white dots.
The pixels drifted and pulsed in sequences of flowing movement, evoking the rhythms of water edging onto sand, sand shifting back toward the sea, salt forming shapes when drying in the sun. In this choreography of particles, figural outlines appeared only to dissolve again, as if the images oscillated between recognition and abstraction, presence and erosion. The visuals were supported by abstract soundscapes of water, salt, and sand in motion.
The projections shifted in restless contours. Its outlines stretched and contracted, frames seemed to wander, and edges refused closure. This instability gave the images a quality of constant becoming, forms that suggested architectural memories or natural landscapes, only to unravel into openness. Viewers encountered a visual vocabulary without fixed borders, where every frame was provisional and every edge remained porous, recalling the way memory itself drifts, reshapes, and cannot be fully contained.
The two projections unfolded in layers of black and white punctuated by subtle hues echoing the architectural colors weathered over decades, tones that shimmered faintly through the projections like memories surfacing. Moments of coherence gave way to dispersal, creating a constant tension between forming and un-forming, between an archive preserved and an archive in perpetual motion.
Siewerski’s playful and poetic work was a meditation on memory’s unstable ground. Just as the tide erased and redrew the shoreline, so too cultural memory continually reconstructed itself from scattered fragments. “Where the Tide Remembers” staged this fragile, luminous process: the passage from personal recollection to collective history, carried by particles that never fully settled, constantly shifting like the sea.
BACKGROUND
Liudmila Siewerski is a media artist working with video and new media technologies across theatre, contemporary art, and music. Her work synthesizes digital and generative graphics, video art, architecture, and urbanism to create expansive installations and site-specific projections.
Liudmila engages critically with cultural memory and reconfigures urban environments into reflective spaces. Her focus is rooted in a interdisciplinary approach, emphasizing both conceptual and sensory engagements through light, projection, and generative graphics.
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Bern (ch), JAZZWERKFESTIVAL
2025 Berlin (de), SOMA ART GALLERY
2024 Wroclaw (pl), WRONG Biennial
2024 Berlin (de), TRANSMEDIALE Festival
2024 Lille (fr), RENCONTRES AUDIOVISUELLES Video Mapping Contest
2024 Chemnitz (de), LIGHT OUR VISION Festival
2024 Leipzig (de), LEIPZIG LICHTFEST
2022 Paris (fr), CENTRE POMPIDOU
2022 Valletta (mt), SPAZJU KREATTIV
2022 Hong Kong (hk), HONG KONG ARTS FESTIVAL
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STUDIES
2018 Berlin (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: MA, Meisterschülerin
2014 Helsinki (fi), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: MA Time and Space Studies
2005 St. Petersburg (ru), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: Diploma Directing Festival and Theater Performances
LINKS
siewerski.com
@iudmila_siewerski
FEATURED IMAGE
SEE DJERBA Test: Videostill.