Le chant des sirènes
Exhibition
From 09 May to 23 August 2025
As part of the biennial and the Year of the Oceans on the sidelines of the United Nations conference in 2025, La Station presents Le Chant des Sirènes, a highlight from May to August 2025 which combines exhibition, performances and a listening festival.
An ambivalent mythological figure, an evil chimera, synonymous with seduction and destruction, the mermaid, with the body of a bird and the head of a woman, heralds (and leads to) shipwreck.
Transported into Nordic beliefs, then into pop culture, the mermaid dives underwater, gains a fishtail and the reductive adjective "little." Reinvested in (eco)feminist or queer fields, the mermaid ultimately becomes an emancipatory figure, synonymous with the reappropriation of the body and the wrath of nature.
But the siren also gives its name to powerful sound devices designed to produce a signal, on land or at sea, to maneuver or sound the alarm. A ship's siren alerts of danger, sounds in distress, saves or runs aground.
The exhibition "The Song of the Sirens" at La Station offers a free exploration, based on these figures, of the relationships between several worlds in peril: the human world and the marine world.
Le Chant des Sirènes will also host a listening room, designed by resident and guest artists, which will echo the Witch You Were Here #3* listening festival, and invite spectators to a time of discovery of sound and artistic works.