Brook Andrew in Corps à cordes : Vibrations et résonances

The exhibition brings together echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and energies shared between Sufi thought and contemporary artistic practices.

At its center: a setâr, a lute with fragile, vibrating strings, carried by Sufis as an emblem of refinement, inner culture (letâfet in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish), and a vehicle for spiritual transformation. A resonant body, the setâr becomes a metaphor here: that of a vibrant heart, stretched between heaven and earth. It invites us to tune in to the vibratory dimensions of emotion, to the movements of care, memory, and transmission—whether human, ancestral, ecological, or invisible.

Through the gestures of listening, oral narratives, songs, rituals, dreams, and visions, the body appears as a living space of passage: a sensitive medium through which forgotten knowledge, silent voices, and encoded memories circulate. The works on display unfold at the intersection of art, care, spirituality, and sound thinking. They explore a way of listening beyond the audible.

The museum itself becomes a resonant body: a vibrating architecture, porous to the living world that surrounds it. The exhibition is anchored in the rhythms of the river, the symbolic lines of the garden, and the discreet presence of medicinal and aromatic plants. These correspondences invite us to refine our perception, to feel—through our own bodies—an embodied, situated, and active listening to the world.


Curators: Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorak
Scenography: Zeynep Inanc