Cancelled: Tigo Ayres: Between Worlds and Memories: Birth, Death, and Resurrection

Please note that this event has been cancelled. We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Between Worlds and Memories: Birth, Death, and Resurrection is an immersive exhibition-performance by Brazilian-British artist, performer, and psychologist Tigo Ayres. Bringing together painting, theatre, and ritual, the work invites audiences into a sensorial journey that unfolds through the cyclical processes of birth, death, and resurrection.

At its core, the project explores how art can be both a source of comfort and disturbance — echoing this year’s festival theme. Ayres’ practice draws on psychology, mythology, and the ritual traditions of Latin America, weaving personal and collective memory into a transformative artistic experience. His canvases and performances are inhabited by hybrid figures, fragments of stories, and archetypal symbols that move between the visible and the hidden, the intimate and the collective.

The performance begins in movement, with abstract dance gestures invoking forces of renewal, followed by spoken word fragments of poetry and memory that descend into rupture and loss.

Audiences are invited not only to watch but to inhabit the space of the work — a space where the personal and the political, the ancestral and the contemporary, intersect.

By merging art and psychology, Tigo Ayres creates a space that consoles the disturbed and unsettles the comfortable, reminding us that art can be both an act of resistance and a gesture of care.

Tigo Ayres has collaborated with leading cultural institutions such as the Royal Opera House and People’s Palace Projects, and his work has been exhibited internationally across Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Rooted in psychology and performance, his practice connects memory, resilience, and spirituality in deeply poetic and transformative ways.

A short video offers a glimpse of the exhibition-performance’s atmosphere and concept:

The exhibition will be open daily from 3pm to 9pm. Within this schedule, the live performance will take place at 7pm, followed by an open conversation with the audience at 8pm, creating space for dialogue and reflection.