SITE
LIQUID SILENCE
Site-specifiuc, multi-channel intervention
2025
BACKGROUND
Zeineb Kaabi’s artistic practice is distinguished by her use of projection-based animations and an evolving engagement with generative imaging processes. With a background in social and cultural anthropology, Kaabi brings a distinct perspective to her creative work, allowing her to approach artmaking with both analytical depth and conceptual openness.
Her artistic focus lies in the tension between humans and their environment, often exploring how societies transform ecosystems and habitats through the consumption and management of energy, water, land, raw materials, and ecosystem services. Kaabi’s process is notable for the way she transforms archival material and complex data into compelling visual experiences. These works do more than visualize data; they evoke the underlying stories and invisible forces shaping landscapes and cultural practices.
For SEE DJERBA 2024, she developed a site-specific projection for the Fondouk Ben Ghorbel thematizing the ecological dilemma of desalination plants — providing drinking water, and at the same time, increasing the salinity of the sea and destroying the submarine’s natural heritage.
EXHIBITIONS
2025 London (uk), SHUBBAK Festival c/o INTERFERENCE
2025 Luedenscheid (de), LICHTROUTEN Light Art Festival
2024 Tunis (tn), ON PLINY’S PATHS c/o INTERFERENCE
2024 Köln (de), ON PLINY’S PATHS
2024 Gelsenkirchen (de), GOLDSTÜCKE Licht Kunst Projekte
2024 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA
2024 Leeuwarden (nl), LUNA YOUNG MASTERS
2023 Gabes (tn), DCS ARTISTIC BOOTCAMP
2023 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA
2023 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2022 Tunis (tn), MISE EN LUMIERE
2022 El Kef (tn), INTERFERENCE YOUNG MASTER El Kef
2022 Tunis (tn), JAOU TUNIS
2021 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE YOUNG MASTER PROGRAM
2021 Tunis (tn), French INSTITUTE OF TUNIS
2021 Bizerte (tn), FRENCH ALLIANCE OF BIZERTE
STUDIES
2022 Tunis (tn), University of Human Science Tunis, Studies of Anthropology
LINK
SUPPORT
ELYSSA c/o Institut Français Tunisie
SHUBBAK London c/o British Council
FEATURED IMAGE
Zeineb Kaabi. SEE DJERBA Houmt Souk 2025. Photo: Bettina Pelz.