Pilgrim

/2025 

Performer/ Yacnoy Abreu Dutour
Sculptor/ Bruce Beasley
Music/ Sammy Sammerson , Mindy Zimmerman and Michael Murphy
And
Marlena Donohue
Kimberly Faith Hickman
Ree and Jun Kaneko
Bruce Beasley Fondation 

Hosted by the Kaneko Art Center in 2025 — founded in Nebraska, USA, by artists Ree and Jun Kaneko — performance artist Yacnoy Abreu Dutour unfolds Pilgrim as a collision: a physical and symbolic body-to-body encounter between his own body and the metallic skin of the works by American sculptor Bruce Beasley.

Realized with the support of the Bruce Beasley Foundation, Pilgrim asserts itself as a ritual of liberation of rare intensity and depth. Throughout this journey, Bruce Beasley’s sculptures become guides along a sacred path. Monumental in scale, oscillating between material rigidity and fluid motion, they transform into points of anchorage — sources of light and peace.

At the heart of the performance unfolds a ritual act of purification: a contemporary baptism through which the artist pays homage to the enduring forces of faith. Marked by a palpable urgency, this gesture calls not only for individual regeneration, but also for the emergence of a collective vision grounded in love, peace, spiritual harmony, and rebirth. Pilgrim is not merely a performance; it is a transcendent experience that, beyond religious or spiritual differences, invites reflection on the bonds of devotion and the sacred that unite humanity as a whole.