Artist Talk with Ayumi Paul

As part of the exhibition Noa Eshkol. No Time to Dance, the artist Ayumi Paul (born 1980) was commissioned to create a new work. This resulted in the work Forms of Breath (2024), which will be activated by the artist, followed by an artist’s talk between Ayumi Paul and María Inés Plaza Lazo.

Ayumi Paul is an artist, violinist and composer. She has performed internationally as a classical musician for more than 15 years. During this time she developed her interdisciplinary approach, exploring how sound and perception influence what we see and how we relate to each other. Her artistic projects often act as new languages, rituals and heightened sensibilities that can be immediately applied to everyday life.

María Inés Plaza Lazo, born in 1989 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, learnt curatorial practice from artists: Curating as informal research, as extended artistic action, as intersectional class struggle and institutional critique. Her thinking was shaped academically through her studies of art history, philosophy and theatre studies at the LMU in Munich. She practices her anti-academic stance both within cultural institutions as a communications consultant and guest lecturer in various faculties of the humanities in international universities, colleges of art and design, as well as outside, as a publicist and editor-at-large of the multilingual street newspaper for art and culture, wealth and poverty, called Arts of the Working Class. She lives and works between Düsseldorf, Berlin and the streets of the world.