‘Smoke’: Ayla Tavares

Ayla Tavares’s process involves equal amounts of craft, intuition and physicality. Presented jointly in Smoke by Hatch Gallery and Galeria Athena, her new commission Witnesses is a site-specific installation that unifies different temporalities. Tavares offers a unique perspective on the concepts of borders and migration in her works, seeing ceramics as a living medium engaged in a continuous exchange with its surrounding environment. At Frieze London, works from Tavares’s significant series ‘Sonantes’ and ‘Materia Materia’ emanate from a single spiral-shaped pedestal, guiding the viewer towards a place of unity.  

About Ayla Tavares

Ayla Tavares (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) lives and works between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Madrid, Spain. Her practice investigates and establishes relationships between architecture, everyday objects, and archaeological and sacred artefacts to think about memory and new ways of conceiving time.

Ayla Tavares is presented by Hatch Gallery and Galeria Athena at Frieze London 2024.

Further Information

Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2024, The Regent’s Park, 9 – 13 October 2024.

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^{Main Image: Ayla Tavares, Una forma siempre Húmeda, 2022. Ceramics, clay and sponge, 61 × 38 × 37 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Galeria Athena. Photo: Rafael Estefania and Lucia Berrón Almeida}