Souffle Continu
Chapel: February 21 — April 19, 2026

Sunflowers
Gallery 3: February 21 — July 19, 2026

Tarek Atoui’s exhibition at IMMA is presented in two phases, comprising an installation, titled Souffle Continu, in the Chapel that focuses on the tactile quality of the sound, vibration, and movement of “wind instruments”. In the gallery spaces, Sunflowers presents a series of works inspired by the rhythmic and material traditions of Korean drumming.

For the installation Souffle Continu, Atoui has created Wind Houses that link hearing, touch, and sight. These are listening and performance spaces which also serve as musical instruments. As is the case with a flute, air is divided by a bevelled board, thus producing low sounds that resonate throughout the body and in the surrounding space. The organs within the space are sculptural installations that combines research into church pipe organs with the sonic experiences of deaf people. It consists of a network of tubes which connect a computer with an air blower, and various organ modules which interact with each other in such a way that their sounds constantly adapt to each other.

In the gallery spaces Atoui’s new works Sunflowers are influenced by Korean drumming tradition, the spaces will be designed as both listening space and places for the audience to make their own material through workshops. Atoui’s work plays with improvisation, activation and listening that immerses the audiences in unprecedented sensory and cognitive experiences. His work opens up new channels of imagination and knowledge that are challenging and embrace experimentation.

The exhibition will be punctuated by a programme of live performances and workshops. Tarek Atoui will perform on February 20, 2026 as part of the exhibition launch. A second performance by invited musicians Natalia Beylis and Áine O’Dwyer takes place on March 21. 

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