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💦ALEXANDRA NIAKA: THE RIVER WHERE YOU SET YOUR FOOT JUST NOW IS GONE ✨

Meet Alexandra, participating Fellow of for 2025/26 through the AiR/ONX Fellowship.

Alexandra Niaka is an interactive media artist who expresses herself through interactive installations, immersive technologies, and written text. “The river where you set your foot just now is gone” is an immersive, real-time generated installation with its core lying in the history of water, not only as a force of creation but also as a vessel of collective memory and catastrophe. Rooted in a Thessalian folklore myth, in which the dead once a year emerge around areas of water to share stories from the past, present, and future, the artwork reveals how rivers, floods, and the cyclical presence of water have shaped both the cultural imagination and the lived realities of Thessaly.

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https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-air/onassis-air-onx-fellowships/alexandra-niaka-the-river-where-you-set-your-foot-just-now-is-gone