Leaving the Island

"At first, looking at water seems calm and soothing... It can be lakes, but also the wider expanses of the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean... An infinite source of projections and hopes, an idyllic vision of future journeys or a sometimes too exotic conception of the far-off, the sea, which is also associated with imposed departures, also proves to be destructive and devouring. It can swallow up those it has attracted and courted. The water becomes an impetuous bubbling that mixes dreams and distress, remembering the many deaths it has witnessed... before returning to the sweetest visions and the desire to plunge its body into them.
Water evokes summer, the beach and the sun. It is tinged with the allure of seduction and of bringing people together, whatever their gender, like the waves that shake our spirits and stir up our closeness. Water is a direct testimony to our emotions, giving us life and forming our bodies. It turns to tears when the sensations are too strong, the joys too intense or the heartbreaking departures... It takes us back to the past and to what we have left behind. Water still flows through us and asserts itself through various fluids that follow our most ardent desires... and our most joyful."

Marie Maertens

Exhibition from 28 January to 11 April 2025
Free entry - 10am to 6pm Monday to Friday

Opening on 28 January, 6pm

Artists :
Malala Andrialavidrazana, Ismaïl Bahri, Marc Bauer, Alix Boilot, Catherine Bolle, Ralf Bürgin, Karishma D'Souza, Latifa Echakhch, Daniela Edburg, Samuel Fasse, Jean-Marie Fahy, Thomas Huber, Tali Lenox, Mingjun Luo, Esther Mathis, Sofia Mitsola, Chemu Ng'OK, Richard Tuttle, Lian Zhang