Carlos Reyes will present Freestyle Hard, a new artwork that transforms The Shed into a set of spatial cues triggering a timed soundscape. Part durational performance, part installation, it will be presented on Thursday, 8 May throughout the day. The piece will feature, in part, live performances of bird calls–ranging from morning choruses to mating signals–by bird callers. These sound intervals will echo in spaces chosen for their “dramatic potential,” including passageways, escalators, and the coat check. Freestyle Hard combines ambient textures and layered acoustics to create unexpected sonic encounters. Known for poetically repurposing transitional spaces and structures, Reyes extends this exploration at The Shed. Freestyle Hard conjures an uncanny atmosphere where fiction and reality overlap, and sound becomes a medium of transformation and coded communication. Reyes was recently featured in Flow States – La Trienal 2024 at El Museo del Barrio and is currently in an exhibition at Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim and a forthcoming show at Soft Opening in London.