Ayla Tavares
b. 1990, Brazil
Ayla Tavares builds her artistic production in dialogue with archaeological practices, addressing questions about the various ways of inhabiting the world. Her works explore temporal layers such as memory, everyday life and projection, through investigations into archaeological artefacts, architecture and everyday objects. By straining poetic and analytical methods in the way we think about documents and representations, Ayla reveals chimaeras - speculative bodies that provoke strangeness and fabulation.
Installation view, 'Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026. © Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the Artist and Hammer Museum.
Installation view, 'Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026. © Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the Artist and Hammer Museum.
Installation view, 'Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026. © Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the Artist and Hammer Museum.
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
Assemblage 1
2025
From the series ‘Anthologies of a Receptacle’
Ceramic
100 x 54 cm
Ayla Tavares
The sky measured by the window | O céu à medida da janela
2025
Fromt the series 'Interludes'
Graphite on ceramic
29 x 27 x 8 cm
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
Jaleo
2025
From the series 'Interludes'
Graphite on ceramic
24 x 28,5 x 7 cm
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
Sonantes 15
2024
From the series 'Sonantes'
Ceramic
20 x 164 x 18 cm
Ayla Tavares
deep sea brittle star
2024
Details
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
deep sea brittle star
2024
Graphite and resin on ceramic
65 x 24 x 24 cm
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Ayla Tavares
Vaso
2024
Graphite on ceramics
32 x 22 x 20 cm
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Ayla Tavares
Escrituras
2024
Clay plates
110 x 45 cm
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Ayla Tavares
Cordilheira do mar
2024
From the series 'Matéria Matéria'
Graphite on ceramics
37 x 30 cm
Installation view, ‘Alfarería del agua’, Collegium museum, Arévalo, SP, 2022-2023. © Alberto París. Courtesy of the Artist and Collegium museum.
Ayla Tavares
An always humid form
2022
Details
Installation view, ‘Ustão’, Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2023. © Mario Grisoll. Courtesy of the Artist and Eva Klabin House Museum.
Installation view, ‘Ustão’, Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2023. © Mario Grisoll. Courtesy of the Artist and Eva Klabin House Museum.
Installation view, ‘Ustão’, Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2023. © Mario Grisoll. Courtesy of the Artist and Eva Klabin House Museum.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Ayla Tavares
b. 1990, Brazil
Ayla Tavares builds her artistic production in dialogue with archaeological practices, addressing questions about the various ways of inhabiting the world. Her works explore temporal layers such as memory, everyday life and projection, through investigations into archaeological artefacts, architecture and everyday objects. By straining poetic and analytical methods in the way we think about documents and representations, Ayla reveals chimaeras - speculative bodies that provoke strangeness and fabulation.
Installation view, 'Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026. © Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the Artist and Hammer Museum.
Installation view, 'Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026. © Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the Artist and Hammer Museum.
Installation view, 'Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026. © Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the Artist and Hammer Museum.
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
Assemblage 1
2025
From the series ‘Anthologies of a Receptacle’
Ceramic
100 x 54 cm
Ayla Tavares
The sky measured by the window | O céu à medida da janela
2025
Fromt the series 'Interludes'
Graphite on ceramic
29 x 27 x 8 cm
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
Jaleo
2025
From the series 'Interludes'
Graphite on ceramic
24 x 28,5 x 7 cm
Installation view, 'Anthologies of a Receptacle', Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2025. © Aurélien Molle. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
Sonantes 15
2024
From the series 'Sonantes'
Ceramic
20 x 164 x 18 cm
Ayla Tavares
deep sea brittle star
2024
Details
Installation views, ‘Earandel’, Lamb Gallery, London, UK, 2025. © Angus Mill. Courtesy of the Artist and Lamb Gallery.
Ayla Tavares
deep sea brittle star
2024
Graphite and resin on ceramic
65 x 24 x 24 cm
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Ayla Tavares
Vaso
2024
Graphite on ceramics
32 x 22 x 20 cm
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Ayla Tavares
Escrituras
2024
Clay plates
110 x 45 cm
Installation view, ‘Things that move slowly’, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2024. © Thiago Almeida. Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Athena.
Ayla Tavares
Cordilheira do mar
2024
From the series 'Matéria Matéria'
Graphite on ceramics
37 x 30 cm
Installation view, ‘Alfarería del agua’, Collegium museum, Arévalo, SP, 2022-2023. © Alberto París. Courtesy of the Artist and Collegium museum.
Ayla Tavares
An always humid form
2022
Details
Installation view, ‘Ustão’, Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2023. © Mario Grisoll. Courtesy of the Artist and Eva Klabin House Museum.
Installation view, ‘Ustão’, Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2023. © Mario Grisoll. Courtesy of the Artist and Eva Klabin House Museum.
Installation view, ‘Ustão’, Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2023. © Mario Grisoll. Courtesy of the Artist and Eva Klabin House Museum.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.
Installation view, ‘Sonantes’, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019. © Vicente Mello. Courtesy of the Artist and Centro Cultural Light.