A breeze seems to flow through the Horta Hall. Artist and composer Tarek Atoui is renowned for his meticulous yet free exploration of how sound makes materials vibrate. A central guest at the 2017 festival, his exhibition and concert series defined that year’s edition. His sculptures are newly imagined instruments that invite intuitive interaction, where our movement shapes sound, which in turn guides movement. Choreographer Noé Soulier, a highlight of the 2022 edition, deconstructs choreography into gestures and invisible relationships: rapid and intricate shifts that strike the audience with the immediacy of a wind gust.

Despite their differing approaches, Atoui and Soulier share a fascination with gesture and the movement of the invisible. True to its experimental mission, the festival invited the two artists to collaborate. Together, they create an indescribable, boundary-defying performance of sound and choreography, body and material, human and non-human. The space becomes a mesmerising forest of gestures where actions and reactions are continuously reconfigured. Or perhaps both are carried by the same invisible wind that flows between body, sculpture, and perhaps through us.