Ava Samii

Ava Samii is interested in how our shared spaces can be opened through memory, the sentimental, ritual actions, and speculations on alternative worlds. Samii seeks to dissolve the boundaries between fiction, spiritual experience, and embodied reality, challenging the hierarchies that shape how we value and understand these different forms of experience.

As part of Bringing In The Tide, Samii contributes a sculptural work at Blåvand Beach and a publication that celebrates our coexistence with birds—not only as living beings, but as an inseparable and meaningful part of our own existence. Through references to migratory birds as migrants, the work unfolds an analogy between migration as a consequence of climate change and our perceptions of animal and human bodies.
The work highlights care for the weary traveller in search of better living conditions, food, and shelter, while also addressing the structures and attitudes that shape our perception of those who move across borders—whether animal or human.
The publication and the artwork together function as a kind of “black box”: a testimony from an imagined collapse of the ecosystem and the reality we know. It serves as a record of what has been lost, but also as a reminder of our shared responsibility and interdependence.