The song of the sirens

30 artists and 10 authors talk about water. Both element and resource, the water that constitutes us and overflows the world is today in crisis. From the Villa Medici, let us follow the figure of the siren who sails between the worlds, and from Rome, where water seems eternal, Let’s listen to what the artists tell us about it. Works by Monira Al Qadiri, Mounir Ayache, Younes Ben Slimane, Alix Boillot, Bianca Bondi, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, MadisonBycroft, Alex Cecchetti, Gaëlle Choisne, Jumana Emil Abboud, Klodin Erb, Simone Fattal, Estrid Lutz, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Yiannis Maniatakos, Lou Masduraud, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Dala Nasser, Valentin Noujaïm & Maïa Tellit Hawad, Ariana Papademetropolous, Laure Prouvost, Pamela Rosenkranz, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Bassem Saad, Chiyuki Sakagami, Himali Singh Soin, Emilija Škarnulytė, Aïcha Snoussi, Kusukazu Uraguchi. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Song of the Sirens. Water as told by the artists, organized by the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Medici from October 4 2024 to January 13, 2025.