Atlantis

Manja Ristić & Aleksandar Lazar

Cultural Centre of Belgrade — Podroom Gallery

Opening: 11 June, 19h

Open until: August 15th, 2026.

The exhibition Atlantis presents a new collaborative investigation by artists Manja Ristić and Aleksandar Lazar, grounded in the sonic geography of the Atlantic Ocean and its energetic, historical and ecological turbulences. Beginning with the underwater canyon of Nazaré in Portugal — one of the most dramatic oceanic phenomena in the world — the artists develop an interdisciplinary work that weaves together sound, visual structures and the memory of place.

Nazaré, where waves over thirty metres high collide with the shore, becomes a site for examining the relationship between natural forces and anthropogenic traces. Microplastics, chemical imbalances, disrupted currents and damaged ecosystems enter the work as concrete frequencies — as noises and vibrations that shape the acoustic landscape. Hydrophone, field and terra-phone recordings become mnemonic structures, ways of sensing how a place remembers and how its energy settles into bodies and materials.

The visual layer created by Aleksandar Lazar: multi-channel video installations, holographic projections, and cymatic feedback structures, reveals the landscape from within, through its vibrational matrix and the micro-kinetics of light. Rather than depicting the landscape, the work opens access to its internal dynamics. Atlantis is a work about listening as an ethical act — listening to landscapes, bodies, the ocean, and their hidden micro-structures. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a synaesthetic field in which sound and image transform one another, revealing that every place, when approached through attentive listening, is an infinite archive.