Elena Sorokina, Simona Dvorák

Published on the occasion of the 2025 exhibition Corps à cordes: Vibrations and Resonances at the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO in Chatou, curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorák, this book explores the resonances between Sufism and contemporary artistic practice. Taking the setâr - a key Sufi instrument - as a central metaphor, it reflects on the vibratory nature of emotion, healing, and transmission across human, ecological, and spiritual realms. Conceived as both an extension of the exhibition and a poetic object in its own right, the publication gathers philosophical texts, visual scores, and poems, including a contribution by Denise Ferreira da Silva on sensing as a form of situated, embodied knowledge.