Lamiae is a multimedia installation that considers the night as a space of collective agency and political potential. Drawing from the ancient Greek myth of Lamia, a figure cursed into monstrosity and eternal wakefulness after gods deprived her of the ability to close her eyes, the work repositions her not as a victim, but as an agent who reclaims control over how and when to see.

Lamia is not alone; together with her kin, other Chthonic creatures, ‘cursed’ like her, she reclaims sleeplessness as a form of vigilance, a way of seeing differently and resisting imposed norms.
Spoken from the perspective of the Lamiae as a collective, the narration connects the mythological figure to contemporary nocturnal communities, bodies and identities outside normative structures, where the mythical curse becomes an allegory for marginality and resistance and nocturnal rituals become sites of gathering and alternative social organisation.
Curse and monstrosity are understood as imposed categories that can be turned into forms of agency, where sleeplessness is not exhaustion or affliction but heightened awareness that opens space for refusal, reorientation, and the rehearsal of other worlds within and beyond myth.
The original story ‘Lamiae’, which the installation is based on, is available on request.

Sound Piece: Marcel Dune @marceldune
Projection Visuals Design: Ella Wanendeya @ella.wanendeya
Materials: Aluminum, Concrete, Paper Fibres, Steel Mesh, Wood Board