Ayla Tavares Brazilian, b. 1990

Ayla Tavares (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro) investigates archaeology, architecture, and the objects we encounter in daily life. Connecting them with different layers of time, she reflects on how material forms carry memory and shape the everyday. Attentive to the affections, tensions, and possibilities that things embody, Tavares explores materiality in its entanglements. Her practice generates constellations of objects reordered into new arrangements, forming propositional bodies that move through strangeness and speculation to open space for new narratives and chimeras.

Ayla Tavares received her master's degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include: “Earendel” LAMB, London (2024); Frieze Focus, London (2024); “Things that move slowly” Athena Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (2024); “Ustão” Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro (2023); “Alfarería del agua” Collegium Museum, Arévalo, Spain (2022); “Sonantes” Light Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro (2019). In 2022, Tavares completed residency programs at Pivô Pesquisa (São Paulo, Brazil) and Entre tiempos (Collegium Museum - Arévalo, Spain)