The Flight of the Sirens
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Selection of works from the Frac Lorraine collection by artists Ismaïl Bahri, Taysir Batniji, Marta Caradec, and Raeda Sa'Adeh, as well as works by Berverly Buchanan, Rana Yasser, Menna Wassem, and Salma Ahmed.
"Life is inscribed in a landscape only by the traces of living beings and elements." Fernand Deligny, in the book "Sagesse des lianes" by Dénètem Touam Bona
We are born from water, from the seas and oceans. Our deep roots keep us connected to the earth and nourish our bodies by capillarity. We spread, we disperse, we probe our buried interiority, and we establish our belonging to living things. We are water in a world on fire.
The slightest of our gestures shapes and redraws the world. We become the very ink of our stories, the makeshift shelter of our archives, the cartography of our fragile languages, the resurgence of our fading exiles.
This exhibition is a manifesto that follows in the footsteps of the artistic avant-gardes of popular, minority, and protest cultures of the 1970s. It gathers precarious forms, sensitive uprisings, poetic words and acts that honor our intimate and collective memories.
Good to know
Exhibition on view from May 8 to May 24, 2026.
From Wednesday to Saturday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Free admission.
Opening reception on Thursday, May 7 at 6 p.m.
Part of "NOUVEAUX RIVAGES" by Passages Transfestival, in partnership with 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine.
Supported by Frac Lorraine, the City of Metz, Grand-Est Region, DRAC Grand-Est, the Moselle Department, and the Musée de la Cour d'Or.
Automatically translated from French.
Where does it take place?
Octave Cowbell
4 rue du Change
57000 Metz
France
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