Join the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) for an evening of embodied exploration where art, movement, and wellness converge.
Performance artist and educator Smita Sens works at the intersection of sculpture, dance-based performance, and advanced technology, researching how the body internalizes its environment and the weight of lived experience. Her practice explores how the human body becomes a living document — storing tension, movement, memory, and emotion across a lifetime.
Sens will lead visitors through the Abstraction as Legacy exhibition, drawing connections between the works on view and the language of her own practice, inviting us to see abstract art not as something to be decoded, but as something to be felt, moved through, and moved by.
Following the tour, the evening deepens with Ressonnance, an immersive sound and wellness collective founded by YoungArts Jazz Trumpet Awardee Alum Stéphane Clément and sonic architect Nicolaus Gelin. Clément weaves his German Haitian heritage into a rich jazz foundation, while Gelin crafts soundscapes that dissolve the boundary between music and transcendence. Together, they will compose a live response to the space and the works within it.
In collaboration, Sens and Ressonnance will guide guests through a performance that functions as an invitation to let the body lead, to listen, and to find in sound and motion a new way of moving through art, memory, and meaning.
This program offers an alternative way of navigating abstraction, not through the mind alone, but through the body, the breath, and the resonance of sound.
Image: Abstraction as Legacy installation view, May 22, 2026. Photo by Oriol Tarridas.
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Age Appropriateness: 18 and up
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