Arts Thread

Nina Strzeszewska is a London-based multimedia designer and filmmaker coming from Poland. Her practice moves between textiles, installation, and experience design, exploring how light, perception, and sustainability shape the way we experience time.Her work investigates the shifting relationship between time and perception, inviting audiences to reflect on how fleeting moments and memories influence their sense of the present. Using moving image and installation, she creates contemplative experiences that respond to the overwhelming pace of modern life and the emotional elasticity of time.Her research project, Elastic Hours: On the Space Between Past and Present, explored the emotional and perceptual dimensions of time through the behaviour of light. Developed as both a narrated film and an installation, the project combined scientific and poetic perspectives to examine how time stretches, compresses, and lingers.Alongside this, Nina led a textiles workshop at the Horniman Museum and Gardens as part of a late event on Coral Love, where participants engaged with data visualisation weaving. The workshop, Spectrum of the Reef, translated elements of their research into a public-facing format, fostering dialogue around coral bleaching and finding sustainable solutions.Nina holds an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Graphic and Media Design from the London College of Communication, UAL. Through poetic storytelling and philosophical inquiry, she seeks to create space for slowness, presence, and reflection in an increasingly distracted world.