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 the works of Berverly Buchanan, Rana Yasser, Menna Wassem and Salma Ahmed.
"Life is only inscribed on a landscape by the tracing of living beings and elements." Fernand Deligny, in the book "Sagesse des lianes" by Dénètem Touam Bona
We are born of water, of seas and oceans. Our deep roots hold us to the earth and feed our bodies by capillarity. We spread, we disperse, we probe our buried interiority and inscribe our belonging to the living. We are water in a world on fire.
Every gesture shapes and redrafts the world. We become the ink of our own stories, the makeshift shelter for our archives, the mapping of our fragile languages, the resurgence of our vanishing exiles.
This exhibition is a manifesto in line with 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.
Good to know
Vernissage on Thursday, May 7 at 6:00 pm.
Exhibition open from May 8 to May 24, 2026.
Wednesday to Saturday from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
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, the Department of 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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