Nadia Kaabi-Linke et Fatma Fahmy

Horizons d'eaux

The 5th edition of Horizons d'eaux. A contemporary and live art trail on the Canal de Midi has this year as its theme The Spirits of Water and takes place in the context of the Africa2020 Season. In a spirit of sharing, experimentation and encounters around contemporary art and music, this programme brings together a creation on a sailing barge entrusted to the Egyptian artist Samuel El Kordy and exhibitions organised by the Egyptian curator Heba elCheikh.
"Les esprits de l'eau" exhibitions, we seek to capture what connects us to the canal and we invite the public to do so with us. To observe in order to understand the laws of water, its flow, its buoyancy, its rush and slowness, but also its reflection, as well as its own ways of scaling our human sensory perceptions." Heba elCheikh

The exhibitions, which take place as part of the Africa2020 Season, are designed around the major challenges of the 21st century and present the views of African and diaspora artists.
"In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out into the world. And because the road was once a river, it was always hungry. In the country, in the beginning, the spirits mingled with the unborn." Ben Okri, The Famine Road, 1991.

"Les esprits de l'eau" exhibitions are part of the Africa2020 Season