Type: Event / ArtworkFull Location: AYÁ Festival
Jericoacoara, Ceará, Brasil
Curator: Greg Habib
Collaborators: AYA / YARD / Immersion Community
Distinguished Visitors: International DJs, producers, and creative leaders participating in the AYÁ New Year’s editions
Photo credit: Arturo Gomez

Descripción: AYÁ is a music and arts festival held in Jericoacoara, Brazil, centered around New Year’s celebrations and inspired by community-driven, immersive cultural experiences. Alejandro Glatt was invited as the featured artist for the 2023 and 2025 editions, where he created a monumental Papaya Totem and large-scale Papaya Portal sculptures integrated into the natural landscape. Conceived as a symbolic altar, the papaya was used to honor the transition into the New Year and to acknowledge Brazil’s cultural traditions, spiritual syncretism, and communal ritual practices. Installed around a palm tree and activated through light, scale, and gathering, the work functioned as a ceremonial landmark within the festival, merging Mexican visual identity with the Brazilian coastal environment and reinforcing the papaya as a portal of connection, renewal, and shared celebration.

Press Coverage:

Resident Advisor | AYÁ Music & Arts Festival
https://ra.co/events/2315001 

Resident Advisor | AYÁ Reveillon 2023
https://ra.co/events/1827865 

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