Paola Estrella performance at the Stone Nest - 9 May 2025
Paola Estrella The Cenote Ring 9 May 2025, 7.30pm Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5EZ Tickets With Cenote Ring , multimedia artist Paola Estrella presents an immersive live performance inspired by the myths surrounding an asteroid hitting her native Mexico millions of years ago. Working across a multitude of analogue and digital media, Estrella takes viewers on a sensorial journey to the underwater portals that link prehistoric memories with speculative utopias. A series of large-scale paintings set the scene with impressions of the otherworldly Yucatan landscapes formed along an ancient impact crater to present a dialogue between natural history and new technologies necessary to continue the cycle of creation, destruction and renewal. The collaborative performance piece unfolds in three acts and fuses elements of spoken word, sounds and movement, starting with a sonic exploration by María Mónica Gutiérre...