The 17th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art | Lyon
Exhibitions
With the title "Les voix des fleuves, Crossing the water", the 17th Lyon Biennale invites artists to interrogate and investigate the ebb and flow of human relationships, both with one another and with the environment.
For this project, we draw on the natural and human geography of the region, as well as on the spirit of the Biennale's new venues: Les Grandes Locos and Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie. These venues, and others, with which macLYON has its longest association with the Biennale, are full of questions of relationships and welcoming the other. These spaces embody history, diversity and the invention of communal ways of working. Their walls still bear the traces and experiences of the men and women who worked and lived there, conjuring rituals of conviviality, ways of being and creating things together.
The artists will make the unique voices of these places - their stories and social identities - resonate. These places of construction and repair, of care and hospitality, of attention to others, reveal as many destinies as their forms of relationship—conventional, imaginary, and hoped-for.