With the artists: Antoine Boudin & Olivier Millagou, Suzanne Husky, Eloïse Le Gallo & Julia Borderie, Camille Llobet, Navire Avenir, Eleonora Strano & Vincent Malassis and Guido Van Der Werve.

As part of the biennial event and the Year of the Oceans, to be held in Nice in conjunction with the United Nations conference in 2025, La Station presents Le Chant des Sirènes, a special event from May to August 2025, combining exhibitions, 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, announces (and leads to) shipwreck.
Transported into Nordic beliefs, then into pop culture, the mermaid dives beneath the sea, gaining a fish tail and the reductive adjective of “small”. Reinvested in (eco)feminist or queer fields, the mermaid finally becomes an emancipatory figure, synonymous with the reappropriation of the body and the anger 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 alarm. The ship’s siren warns of danger, sounds in distress, saves or befalls.
The exhibition Le Chant des Sirènes at La Station freely explores the relationships between several worlds in peril: the human world and the marine world.

Le Chant des Sirènes will also host a listening lounge, designed by resident and guest artists, echoing the Witch You Were Here #3* listening festival, and inviting spectators to a time of discovery of sound and artistic works.

Exhibition from May 9 to August 23, 2025
Opening on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 6 p.m.

* Sound festival organized for the third year running at La Station, on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

Pictures of the exhibition