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.