Sonantes
Ayla Tavares

Shaping clay is an archaic gesture that symbolically evokes timeless delirium. Modeling is an action directed towards matter that requires an awareness of the gesture, demanding accumulations, repetitions, an agreement between the clay and the body. Returning to the zero degree of the object to reflect on the uses of the body, its gestures, and its meanings, Ayla Tavares is interested in archaeological objects found in different sources (virtual museum archives and in loco). Through the consonance of forms found in the research of ceramic objects, archival pieces generate a constellation of "strangely familiar" objects, seeking to tension new relationships and gesturalities beyond their scientific-museological cataloging.