Transcendence.

A VR exhibition directed, designed, and created by Isaac Irvine, exploring Afro-Brazilian spirituality, ancestral memory, and immersive ritual.

Transcendense is a virtual reality exhibition directed, designed, and created by Isaac Irvine. It invites audiences into a deeply sensory and symbolic encounter with Candomblé—an Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition rooted in resistance, remembrance, and the survival of ancestral knowledge.

Built using motion capture, spatial sound, and immersive visual design, the work leads participants through a dreamlike sequence of ritual zones—each evoking the emotional resonance of spiritual continuity and the enduring impact of colonial histories. Rather than observing from a distance, the viewer is placed within an unfolding experience of embodied rhythm, presence, and transformation.

Grounded in extensive research and guided by respect, Transcendense does not aim to replicate ceremony but to evoke a contemporary space for reflection—where immersion becomes a form of reverence. The exhibition honours the cultural specificity of Candomblé while opening a broader conversation about memory, resistance, and the role of immersive art in reimagining erased narratives.

Transcendense forms part of The Cultural Museum, an ongoing platform founded by Irvine to explore marginalised and underrepresented histories through immersive storytelling. Like all his work, the project blends choreography, emotion, spatial narrative, and design to create deeply felt experiences that challenge, connect, and transform.

This is not simply a VR experience—it is a ritual offering for the digital age. Through Transcendense, Isaac Irvine invites audiences to move slowly, feel fully, and enter a space where history breathes and the spiritual is made spatial.