Beneath the Surface is a site-responsive installation created two floors underground in a building in Sierre, flooded by the Rhône and evacuated in the summer of 2024.

 

The space, marked by trauma, is reclaimed as a field of resonance and transformation. Video fragments from the evacuation zone merge with abstract animations that evoke the inner eye—vision turning inward, dreamlike and poetic.

 

A site-specific soundscape composed of hydrophone recordings from the Rhône, the atmospheric CO₂ curve (800–2020) transcribed into sound, and theta binaural beats vibrates through body and architecture, guiding visitors into receptive states.

 

The work begins with a paradox: to get lost in order to find home. In this porous field where body and world blur and breathe together, trauma becomes a threshold for renewal, inviting visitors into an unwritten story of memory, fragility, and interconnection.