Nindya Nareswari is an Indonesian light artist and designer based in Berlin. Her practice explores how perception is shaped through the interplay of light, material, and space, with a focus on temporality and ephemerality. She works with reflections, refractions, and shifting patterns as visual phenomena that emerge through interaction between light and tangible materials. Often activated by daylight, atmospheric conditions, and spatial context, her artworks take shape as ever-changing, time-based settings where images continuously appear and dissolve. Her practice reflects a tension between control and uncontrollable, inviting the viewer into a slower, more attentive way of seeing, sitting with what remains of a fleeting moment, where perception itself becomes the subject.

Nareswari’s works have been shown internationally, including Instrumenta Festival at National Gallery of Indonesia, Memphis Gardens (Melbourne), Il Pianeta Festival (Milan), CTM Festival (Berlin), and Dealing in Distance Traveling Festival (Ho Chi Minh City and Bali). For the residency at Skaftfell, she will continue her ongoing research into the visual properties of light and the act of seeing through an exploration of Iceland’s extreme seasonal light and subarctic natural phenomena. She aims to document the fjord’s light, gather local narratives, and weave them into new work.