What Sinks Still Sings
26.09-14.11.2025
Exhibition presented by La Becque | Artist Residency and Kunstverein SALTS, from September 26 to November 14, 2025. With Invernomuto and 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 traced a connection between two shores: that of Lake Geneva bordering La Becque, and that of the Birs river flowing alongside SALTS before joining the Rhine. From this dialogue between two sites emerged the idea of water as a guiding thread, not as a mere geographical motif, but as a starting point for a broader reflection. In the exhibition, water became a metaphor for movement, unfolding as a current of resonances that revived memories, fractures, and conflicting narratives.
The invited artists nourished the exhibition with their singular research practices. Their contributions, spanning installations, projections, and shared gestures, formed a shifting ensemble in which diasporic narratives, buried cosmologies, affective ecologies, and practices of care found space. Resisting any univocal reading, the works embraced tension and persistence, composing an archipelago of fragile yet enduring presences.
Curated by Vanessa Cimorelli, What Sinks Still Sings unfolded as a series of ephemeral constellations, inviting a plurality of memories and stories, like a song not always heard at the surface, yet one that continues to resonate in depth.
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.
What Sinks Still Sings, City Salts, Birsfelden, 2025, photo Nicolas Gysin