Ah! — artistic practice as a tool for transformation is a project by Teresa Silva that transforms the studio into a space for introspection and encounter with the public. In one-to-one sessions, each participant is invited to listen and become aware of what is affecting them in the present moment. From there, Teresa crafts a dramaturgy for the encounter, proposing and guiding somatic practices, sensory exercises, and symbolic actions, grounded in her experience in the performing arts, aimed at generating states of attention, self-knowledge, and transformation.
To guide these sessions, the artist draws on her research with Sara Anjo around the oracular body, her studies in Expressive Arts Therapy, Trauma and Embodiment (currently completing the EC-EXATT® Master’s), as well as the work of artists such as Anna Halprin, Lygia Clark, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Valentina Desideri, who have made, and continue to make, their artistic practice territories of affect, ritual, and healing.
