Exhibition presented by La Becque | Artist Residency and Kunstverein SALTS, from September 26 to November 14, 2025. With Invernomuto & Low Jack, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Zahra Malkani, Davi Pontes, Ventura Profana, and Caroline Ricca Lee.

 

Conceived by La Becque at the invitation of SALTS, What Sinks Still Sings traces a connection between two shores, that of Lake Geneva and that of the rivers Birs. From this dialogue between places, both intimately tied to the two institutions, water emerges as a guiding thread – not simply as a geographical motif, but as a starting point for a broader reflection. In this exhibition, water becomes a metaphor for displacement and unfolds as a current of resonances, reviving memories, divergences, and conflicting narratives.

 

The participating artists, all of whom are currently or were recently hosted in residency at La Becque, bring their singular research into the exhibition. Through installations, screenings, and shared gestures, they create a shifting constellation where diasporic stories, submerged cosmologies, affective ecologies, and practices of care find a place. Rejecting any univocal reading, their works embrace tension and persistence, composing an archipelago of fragile yet enduring presences.

 

Curated by Vanessa Cimorelli, What Sinks Still Sings takes shape as a series of ephemeral constellations, welcoming a plurality of memories and narratives, like a song not always heard on the surface, yet resonating in depth.

 

Opening: Friday, September 26, 2025, from 6 pm to 10 pm.

 

La Becque’s public program is supported by the City of La Tour-de-Peilz, Loterie Romande, the Coromandel Foundation, the Philanthropique Famille Sandoz Foundation, and Pensimo Fondsleitung AG.

 

The team at La Becque is delighted to invite you to a new edition of our Open Studios, taking place on Saturday, November 15, from noon to 6:00 pm. This is a unique opportunity to discover the creative worlds and works-in-progress of our current residents, through installations, performances, screenings, and informal exchanges in their studios and living spaces.

 

Come explore the work of Alioune Thiam, Caroline Ricca Lee, Jazmín López, Judith Hamann, Pedro Marrero Fuenmayor, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Trevor Yeung, Ventura Profana, and Zahra Malkani.

 

Bar and light refreshments by Céleste (Vevey).
Free entry, more info to come.

 

La Becque’s public program is supported by the City of La Tour-de-Peilz, Loterie Romande, the Coromandel Foundation, the Philanthropique Famille Sandoz Foundation, and Pensimo Fondsleitung AG.

La Becque, 2025, photo Matthieu Croizier

An exceptional evening with one of the most influential and radical voices in contemporary Black studies: Fred Moten, joined for the occasion by double bassist Brandon López.

 

Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Rue de Genève 57, 1004 Lausanne

8:30 pm Doors open
9:30–10:30 pm Performance Fred Moten (voice, texts) & Brandon López (double bass)

Free admission

 

Fred Moten is a poet, cultural theorist, author, and professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University. His work creates new conceptual forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life.

 

Brandon López is a leading double bassist on New York’s improvisation scene. Together with Fred Moten, he recently released the album Revision (TAO Forms, 2025).

 

This concert is part of a public study day organized by the project Parasonic: Transmission of Fugitive Aural Practices, which seeks to explore, deconstruct, and resist hegemonic mechanisms of racialization at play in listening practices in art, music, and everyday life. The project is led by the BA in Visual Arts at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, in partnership with La Becque and Arsenic.

 

ECAL (IKEA Auditorium)
Rue du Temple 5, 1020 Renens

2:00–3:00 pm Presentation of the book Sounds of Black Switzerland. Blackness, Music and Unthought Voices by Jessie Cox
3:00–4:00 pm Collective discussion on racialization and listening in contemporary Switzerland, presented and moderated by Pamela Ohene-Nyako

Free admission

 

Jessie Cox is a percussionist, composer, and professor at Harvard University, and author of the provocative and inspiring monograph Sounds of Black Switzerland (Duke University Press, 2025).

 

Pamela Ohene-Nyako is the founder of Afrolitt’, historian of Black European feminisms and internationalisms, author of numerous essays, and co-editor of the influential collective volume Un/doing Race Racialisation en Suisse (Seismo, 2022).