Ayayay (Cómo me duele) – Performative Activation with Nicole L’Huillier

Venue: Exhibition, ground floor

During the opening of the exhibition Canción de Amor, following the opening speech in the Caring Space, the artist Nicole L’Huillier invites the audience to join her in a collective procession to the second exhibition space. There, she will activate her sound work Ayayay (Cómo me duele) (2026) through a one-time live performance.

Conceived as an inaugural concert, the artist will perform for the first time a live adaptation of the love song composed specifically for the installation. Shared as a collective moment, the performance offers a fuller, extended version of the piece before it becomes embedded within the work for the duration of the exhibition.

Throughout the exhibition, the song exists in a different form: as a subtle sonic presence that gradually reveals itself to visitors who approach the focal point of the satellite dishes. The live activation marks the moment on which the composition can be experienced live, before becoming an invitation to engage with the work through vibration, proximity and resonance.

Nicole L’Huillier (born in 1985 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and composer whose practice unfolds at the intersection of art, science, and technology. She explores sound and vibration as material forces and modes of knowledge, investigating how sonic and electromagnetic phenomena shape agency, identity, and collective experience. Through installations, sound and vibration sculptures, custom-built listening and sounding devices, performances, experimental compositions, membranal poetry, and writing, she creates immersive environments that make otherwise imperceptible processes tangible and invite new relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.

L’Huillier studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile and received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. She is the recipient of the MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts and a fellowship from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (2024), the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), the Bienal do Mercosul (2025), Kunsthalle Bern, and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. She currently teaches at the Chair of Art in Space and Time in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

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