TESSA LANGEVELD

A Nightpiece [...] is a 3D animation installation exploring transitions between spaces and the emotions of loss and grief. It consists of three screens, adding a sculptural layer to the video projections and a materialization of the changing, digital spaces depicted. This movement is guided by a piece of paper falling poetically to a repeated piano sample. The work moves from a familiar domestic hallway into an abstract, liminal space, using montage and detailed sound design to connect passages. The screens provide a framework into a fleeting, immaterial world that captures a narrative in movement and sound, rather than words. You are lured into a world meant to be experienced, rather than understood.

About the artist

Tessa Langeveld is a visual artist working with video, installation, and sound. Using 3D animation (CGI), she explores the emotional experience of domestic space by creating empty chambers and houses devoid of people. These interiors act as both actors and backgrounds in her films. The immateriality of CGI lies at the core of her practice: the rooms exist nowhere, yet their emptiness becomes tangible through repetition and constant reconsideration. Here, sound designs play an important part in creating a spatial invisible layer. Her interest in off-screen narratives and immaterial spaces stems from a personal connection to intergenerational trauma, examining how collective trauma shapes the personal and intimate like relationships, the home, the mind, and the body. Through an embodied practice, she reclaims and redefines spaces that once felt unstable, creating poetic works in constant motion, each emerging from the last. Her work grows from an ongoing dialogue between artist and medium, and her installations invite viewers into a state where not-knowing becomes comforting.

Website: tessalangeveld.com
Instagram: @tessalangeveld