Echoing the overarching theme of this year’s edition, Rhythm Alliances, their works incorporate cinema, choral practice and moving image, engaging memory not as a fixed archive, but as something carried in bodies, voices and everyday acts. Working with film, video and photography, his project begins with everyday gestures that are often starting points for wider conversations. Where Basir works through cinematic memory and collective voice, Nina Mangalanayagam and Marie Bergqvist approach sound as an embodied site of inheritance. Central to the work is The Whale, a choir of transnational and transracial adoptees formed by Marie, whose collective presence anchors the installation. Whether through cinema’s emotional arc or the collective resonance of humming bodies, the works resist silence and singular narratives.

Source: Sunday Times January 10, 2026 19:29 UTC