The Flight of the Sirens
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vernissage
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 through the traces of living beings and elements." Fernand Deligny, in the book "Sagesse des lianes" by Dénètem Touam Bona.
We are born from the water, from the seas and oceans. Our deep roots keep us connected to the earth and nourish our bodies by capillarity. We spread, disperse, probe our buried inner selves, and assert our belonging to the living. We are the water in a world on fire.
Every gesture we make 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 resurging traces of our vanishing exiles.
This exhibition is a manifesto, following in the footsteps of the artistic avant-gardes of the 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.
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Opening on Thursday, May 7 at 6pm.
Exhibition on view from May 8 to May 24, 2026.
Open Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 6pm.
Free admission.
An exhibition as part of "NOUVEAUX RIVAGES" by Passages Transfestival, in partnership with 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine.
With the support of Frac Lorraine, Ville de Metz, Région Grand-Est, DRAC Grand-Est, Département de la Moselle, and Musée de la Cour d'Or.
Visual credit: Marta Caradec, Metz en Algérie, Akbou, 3, 2013. Collection 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Rémi Villaggi.
Automatically translated from French.
Where does it take place?
Octave Cowbell
4 rue du Change
57000 Metz
France
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