The Flight of the Mermaids
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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. With works by Berverly Buchanan, Rana Yasser, Menna Wassem and Salma Ahmed.
"Life is only inscribed in a landscape by the trace of living beings and elements." Fernand Deligny, in the book “Sagesse des lianes” by Dénètem Touam Bona
We are born from water, from seas and oceans. Our deep roots keep us anchored to the earth and feed our bodies by capillarity. We spread, we disperse, we probe our buried inner selves and assert our belonging to living things. We are water in a burning world.
The smallest of our gestures shapes and redraws the world. We become the very ink of our stories, the makeshift shelter of our archives, the map of our fragile languages, and the resurgence of our vanishing exiles.
This exhibition is a manifesto inspired by 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.
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Opening on Thursday, May 7 at 6 p.m.
Exhibition on view from May 8 to May 24, 2026.
Open Wednesday to Saturday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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, the City of Metz, Grand-Est Region, DRAC Grand-Est, Département de la Moselle, and Musée de la Cour d'Or.
Image credit: Marta Caradec, Metz en Algérie, Akbou, 3, 2013. Collection 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Rémi Villaggi.
Automatically translated from French.
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Octave Cowbell
4 rue du Change
57000 Metz
France
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