Following Pedro Melo Alves’s site-specific performance Triggering Memory, presented as part of the exhibition Vexation of Spirit. The Duerckheim Collection x Serralves, the artist is joined by Cerith Wyn Evans (Wales, 1958) for a conversation. Cerith Wyn Evans’s conceptual and theoretical universe takes shape in works in which light, sound and text form a creative strategy that combines and articulates distinct languages. One such example is the sound sculpture Twelve Tones for Ryōan-ji, featured in the exhibition. Comprising 12 crystal flutes, the work pays tribute to composers John Cage and Arnold Schoenberg and enters into direct dialogue with visitors through Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method.

In this conversation, the two artists explore the interdisciplinary dialogues that run through their respective practices, revealing points of convergence in their approaches to sound and sculptural form, as well as between their conceptual worlds and creative processes.