Ayida (Group Exhibition)

Guest-curated by Serubiri Moses, with coordination by Egbert Vongmalaithong, Assistant Curator at the ICA, Ayida honors Caribbean and Afro-diasporic spiritual lineages—particularly Haitian Vodou—and celebrates their enduring influence on contemporary art. Drawing inspiration from the life and work of Haitian poet Assotto Saint, the exhibition foregrounds artistic responses to syncretic traditions, tracing the ways ritual, memory, and material culture shape personal and collective identity. Across diverse media, participating artists engage with traditions such as Vodou, Candomblé, and El Gagá, creating works that bridge material, intellectual, and spiritual worlds. In doing so, Ayida becomes both an offering and an archive—a site where the divine, the ancestral, and the artistic converge.