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Susi Sie is a visual artist based in Zurich. In an art scene saturated with computer-generated imagery, she maintains a radical stance: everything she creates is captured in real life. No CGI, no artificial intelligence, no 3D simulations. Just the lens, the material, and the laws of physics.
Her approach is rooted in cymatics, the science of visualizing sound. By subjecting fluids, lycopodium powders, or inks to precise sound vibrations, she creates ephemeral liquid architectures that her macro lenses capture in an instant. These hypnotic images evoke both the infinitely small (cellular, biological) and the infinitely large (nebulae, cosmic landscapes).
In 2023, she won an Emmy Award for her art direction on the Netflix documentary *A Trip to Infinity*. In 2016, she created the macro-scale sequences for the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics, viewed by billions of television viewers. Her works have been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig. She regularly collaborates with HBO, Porsche, Sony, and the Siemens Group.
Going against the grain in an era saturated with digital images, Zurich-based artist Susi Sie has made the radical choice to work exclusively with analog technology. In her laboratory, far removed from algorithms and 3D, she uses macroscopic lenses to capture the physical metamorphosis of matter: inks, crystals, fluids.
