NAKED SPACE

ISLANOVA gathers bodies and breath along the Ter River, offering festival-goers a way to float—together, apart—on a soft constellation of inflatables. Born as an offspring of SOFANOVA, this installation extends our lineage of inflatable spatial tools into the liquid public, reimagining the surface as gathering.

Inspired by John Donne’s poem “No Man Is an Island,” ISLANOVA explores the reality of emotional, spiritual, and physical interconnection. The inflatables may appear as isolated islands, but they’re all moved by the same current. They shift, overlap, echo each other. On ISLANOVA, you lay back and listen—not just to the music from RZM Festival, but to laughter, conversation, and the quiet breathing of those around you.

From afar, it reads as a scattered archipelago. From within, it feels like a living organism—softly bound by water, air, and sound. Each unit offers just enough space for solitude, but never true separation. You see your neighbors. You hear what they hear. You feel the water react beneath them, and you move in kind.

ISLANOVA is a listening platform and a social mirror. It is a spatial metaphor for a shared condition—one where what affects others, affects you; and where no experience is fully personal when held by a collective flow.