Saturday 26th October

Ava Naba offers a ritual performance in which he explores the divinatory arts, represented here by a huge deck of hand-painted cards: L'Oracle.
He offers a solemn and compassionate reading, inviting those who wish to do so to connect with the spirits of the natural elements, to draw inspiration from the symbols presented to draw on their own experiences and thus allow themselves to listen to their inner guidance.
It is in this space-time that mysterious artefacts are revealed as both magical tools and receptacles for stories, designed to open a door to a more sensitive dimension of existence.

Through this constantly evolving performance, Ava seeks to reappropriate and recompose the animist vision of the world from which she has been torn.
This spiritual perspective, essential to her survival and that of many adelphs sharing the experience of cultural uprooting, becomes a means for her to bear witness to plural cosmogonies, and thus to counterbalance Western materialistic thinking, often presented as the only way to coexist with the world.

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For several years now, Ava's life has been punctuated by the exploration of three very distinct practices: art, fortune-telling and magnetism.
Distinct in appearance, because these three worlds never cease to overlap and collide, feeding his thoughts and research and giving rise to curious hybridisations and new forms of expression.
The mediums he uses to create these chimeras are painting, drawing, installation, salvaged objects and, more recently, performance art, to provide surfaces for the imagination and create atmospheres conducive to introspection.
Dreamlike memories, the arcanas of the Tarot de Marseille, rituals and astrological evocations become the supports he uses to activate these inner and subtle processes. His proposals are intended to be intimate, imbued with a desire to draw our attention to trivial details that he sincerely believes hold the promise of restorative contemplation.

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