Souk Erbaa

UNIVERSE CONTAINERS
Videoessay
5:45 min
2025

The new video essay „Universe Containers” offers a poetic exploration of mixed realities rooted in the observation of natural water flows. The footage follows pouring water and sediments in natural beds, revealing the dynamic interplay of currents, wind, and light that shape colors, textures, and forms.

The flow interacts intimately with its habitat — topography, soils, vegetation, and animals — generating movement patterns such as streams, spirals, and meanders that influence water velocity and texture. It embodies the meeting point of sky and earth, where natural forces create interferences and momentum among light, climate, and matter, resulting in constantly shifting colors, patterns, and textures.

“Universe Containers” transforms sediments — viewed as archives of nature — into digital textures that balance between representational imagery and generative abstraction, blending organic processes with digitally shaped aesthetics. Sound elements by Roisner trace the process of perception, from recordings of dripping, washing, flowing, and running water to evolving electronic textures. Embedded text sections further personalize the contemplation of nature’s complex ecosystems.

“Universe Containers” unfolds as a sensory immersion, inviting viewers to perceive the fluid boundaries between natural phenomena and digital spin-offs.
Sound: Roisner

MUSEUM GUELLALA

BACKGROUND

Nicolás Dardano is a media artist whose artistic research and practice centers on the dynamic interplay of darkness and light, time and space, material and virtual realities. Grounded in an intuitive and empathic approach to nature, Dardano’s work is inspired by landscapes and the poetic contemplation of natural phenomena. His artistic output encompasses installations, live sets, digital scenography, experimental animation, and immersive audiovisual experiences.

At the core of Dardano’s practice lies a transdisciplinary and collaborative spirit. He works closely with artists from diverse fields including dance, performance, sound, poetry, music, choreography, and architecture. Through a poetic visual language, Dardano opens timeframes in which experimental perception invites deeper reflection and inquiry. Nicolás Dardano’s work encourage understanding of reality through a poetic lens. His intuitive practice follows the flow of energies, aiming to new aesthetic viewpoints.

EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS

2024 Murcia (es), CENTRO PARRAGA with Abraham Hurtado
2024 Wolfsburg (de), KUNSTMUSEUM with Leandro Erlich Studio
2024 Leeuwarden (nl), LUNA Festival with Guliana Grippo
2023 Berlin (de), HAU
2023 Murcia (es), ROTA Music Festival
2021 Ingolstadt (de), LICHTSTROM International Light Art Project
2021 Leeuwarden (nl), LUNA Festival
2021 Murcia (es), ROTA International Sound Art Festival
2021 Nancy (fr), VOLTE FACE Performance
2020 Murcia (es), RAIZ AL NOISE International Sound Art Festival
2019 Blanca (es), AADK Wild Times
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TEACHING

2018 — 2022 Buenos Aires (ar), TORCUATO DI TELLA UNIVERSITY: Professor
2002 — 2018 Buenos Aires (ar), UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN: Professor

STUDIES

2003 Buenos Aires (ar), SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, AND URBAN PLANNING: Diploma Graphic Design

BIO

Lives in Buenos Aires (ar) and Blanca (es).

LINKS

nicolasdardano.com
@nicolas.dardano

FEATURED IMAGE

Nicolás Dardano. SEE DJERBA Hozmt Soul 2025. Photo: Wassim Ben Aissa.

El Ghorfa (Fondouk Bouchaddakh)

THE STORY BEHIND THE JUMO
Dancer: Hoàng Minh Võ
Videoessay
2 min
2025

This videoessay reflects on the performative and physical, corporeal interaction in breaking with the enivronment, situating the dance form within a broader discourse of embodied practice and artistic resilience. The video foregrounds the dialectic between spectacle and process juxtaposing the virtuosity of aerial movement with the invisible labor that underpins it. In foregrounding the interplay between visibility and invisibility, the piece invites reflection on the foundational exercise and experience that supports every act of creative expression and environmental interaction.

The videoessay positions breaking as a locus of narrative and endurance, aligning it with broader art-historical themes of struggle, transformation, and the articulation of identity through movement. Drawing upon the visual language of documentary and performance art, the video invites the viewer to reconsider the ontology of the dance gesture: each jump and spin is not merely an act of physical prowess, but a palimpsest inscribed with hours of rehearsal, discipline, and personal negotiation. The work thus gestures toward a deeper phenomenological reading, wherein the visible act becomes a cipher for the myriad unseen exertions that constitute the dancer’s lived experience.

ABOUT

In her artistic research she combines photography and video to focus on the relationship between body, space and movement. With a background as a professional dancer, she explores how physicality, rhythm and choreography settle in the bodies memories and how they shape visual narratives. Her projects engage with urban performences refreeting to gestues and movements, spaces and architecture, and overlaping media.

EXHIBITIONS

2025 Bremen (de), MEDIA ART LAB c/o OPEN SPACE DOMSHOF

CHOREOGRAPHY & DANCE PROJECTS

2024 Saigon / Nha Trang (vn), Goethe Institut
2022 Seoul (kr), Goethe Institut, Cultural Exchange Program

STUDIES

Bremen (de), Hochschule für Künste Bremen

BIO

Lives in Hamburg and Bremen

LINKS

@mer.c_raskill
@artistry__c

FEATURED IMAGE

Merce Can. SEE DJERBA Hiumt Souk 2025. Photo: Wassim Ben Issa.

El Jarda Café

AI-based Animations

I use artificial intelligence as a tool to bring old photos to life by animating them, giving them a new and vibrant dimension. My approach focuses on blending motion with visual effects inspired by a vintage style, adding an artistic and poetic touch to the images. Through this technique, I don’t merely retell the past. I reinterpret it visually, creating an artistic experience where memory is intertwined with modern technology.

BACKGROUND

Yassine Ben Cheikh is a creative professional from Djerba, Tunisia, with experience in communication, graphic design, and digital marketing. He has worked on various projects across branding, social media content creation, and visual identity development, helping businesses build strong and engaging online presences. Known for his eye for detail and his ability to translate ideas into impactful visuals, Yassine has collaborated with local brands and cultural events, contributing to both commercial and community-focused initiatives. His work reflects a blend of creativity, strategy, and a strong connection to his local culture.

WORK / PROJECTS

2021, Djerba (tn), Printing Agency Printway, Printer / Graphic Designer
2023, Djerba/Marsa (tn), Cultural Space Lagora, Community Manager
2024, Djerba (tn), Marketing Agency MKG Concept, Account Manager
2025, Tunis (tn), CinemaTdour, Projectionist/Manager/Community Manager

STUDIES

2020, Djerba (tn), El May Highschool, Computer Science Baccalaureate
2021, Tunis (tn), Tunisian Training Consulting, Graphic Design & Multimedia
2021, Online training, Udemy, Professional training Photoshop 2021

LINKS

yassyynn/

Square Sidi Abdelkader

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.

Fondouk Ben Ghorbel

ROOTS — IT BEGINS WITH WATER
Video-based Animation

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I explore the intangible bonds between memory, heritage, and the natural elements of water and earth. This video work is a meditation on origins and on how we carry our histories not only in stories, but in the textures of land and the rhythm of water. The piece begins with the gentle movement of water, accompanied by living plants, invoking the life-giving force of nature and the fluidity of memory. As the image distorts and layers, it mimics how time bends and recollection blurs. The superimposition of tree roots, with the camera in motion, suggests a descent beneath the surface, into ancestry, origin, and the quiet strength that grows unseen.
The accompanying text serves as a poetic guide, inviting the viewer to reflect on their own place in the continuum of past and present. The work is both personal and universal, a visual ritual of remembrance.

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

@chihaoui_amira

FEATURED IMAGE

Aira Chihaoui. SEE DJERBA Houmt Souk 2025. Photo: Wassim Ben Issa.

SUPPORT

SHUBBAK London c/o British Council

Village Artisanal

GESTES QUOTIDIENS
Videoessay (2021)
2:31 min

“Gestes Quotidiens” (en: Daily Gestures) stages routined gestures once performed daily by a father — now lost to him after an accident rendered him totally paralyzed fifteen years ago. In the work, these small acts are re-enacted not by the father, but by the artist’s mother, whose hands become surrogates for his absent touch. Each sequence focuses on the tactile and visual nuances of everyday movements—brushing, holding, arranging—foregrounding their newfound fragility and significance. Through this quiet choreography, GESTES QUOTIDIENS transforms ordinary actions into acts of memory and care, exposing the emotional weight and resilience embedded in what might otherwise be taken for granted. The film’s gaze lingers on these gestures, conjuring both absence and presence, loss and adaptation, as the artist’s personal experience is rendered universal through the shared language of the body.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

15 years ago, my father became paralyzed due to an accident. The loss of his motor skills, especially for his hands, deeply impacted me and question everything that would normally be taken for granted. Basic gestures became inaccessible to him without assistance. As to conjure my obsession with his loss, I asked my mother to carry out these daily gestures.”

BACKGROUND

Maya Louhichi’s artistic practice is rooted in a research-based approach that explores themes of memory, heritage, traces, and transmission. Louhichi’s methodology combines investigation, inquiry, and a sensitive perspective, often weaving together intimate and political narratives. She was trained outside formal academic institutions and since 2018, her work has drawn deeply from the cinematic legacy of her father, Tunisian director Taïeb Louhichi.

EXHIBITIONS

2025 London (uk), SHUBBAK Festival
2025 Torino (it), Museo Egizio
2025 Lisbon (pt), National Museum of Natural History and Science
2022 Bamako (ml), BAMAKO ENCOUNTERS
2022 Tunis (tn), JAOU
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LINKS

mayalouhichi.com
@maya.louhichi/

SUPPORT

SHUBBAK London c/o British Council

OLD CINEMA

DEAD SERIOUS
Stop Motion Animation
3 min

BACKGROUND

The artist channels a lifelong sense of unease into a search for identity, using art to connect his inner and outer worlds. Through a blend of abstract and figurative work, he explores societal fears and human complexity. Influenced by raw emotion and artists like Basquiat, he finds freedom in creating from struggle — dancing, as Nietzsche said, even in chains.

EXHIBITIONS

2025, London (uk), Shubbak Festival

STUDIES

2022 Tunis (tn), ESSTED, MA Design for Sustainable Development
2019 Tunis (tn), ESSTED: BA Design in Product Creation and Industrial Design

LINK

@matousssi

SUPPORT

SHUBBAK London c/o British Council