INITIATIVE FOR PRACTICES AND VISIONS OF RADICAL CARE


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L’Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, fondée en 2020 dans la région parisienne, est un groupe diversifié de praticien·nes des arts, de l’artisanat, des philosophies, des soins et de la thérapie, dont les membres sont issu·es d’horizons géographiques divers. Ni collectif classique, ni structure rigide, l’Initiative recherche et réinvente des modes d’institutionnalisme durables. Fondée sur des amitiés et des liens professionnels, elle fonctionne comme un écosystème et encourage l’interdépendance et la solidarité au-delà de l’identité. L’accent mis sur le care est mis en œuvre sous la forme d’un flux d’activités qui nourrissent des individus et soutiennent des liens sociaux, environnementaux et politiques, en se concentrant autant sur les processus et les méthodes que sur les résultats. Par le biais d’initiatives artistiques et curatoriales fluides, l’Initiative explore les langages, les énergies, les histoires, les paysages, les corps et les matériaux qui reflètent une relation non-extractive et sensible à l’humain et au non-humain

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Resonant: Bodies, Songs and Strings

Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO
6 Av. des Tilleuls
78400, Chatou

from June 6, 2025 to January 4, 2026


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This exhibition weaves together echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices. At its heart lies the setâr—a lute with fine and delicate strings – embraced by Sufis as a symbol of refinement and inner cultivation (letâfet in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish), and a vessel for spiritual transformation.

A resonant body, the setâr becomes metaphor: a vibrating heart stretched between heaven and earth. It inspires the exhibition to attune itself to the vibratory nature of emotion and to the social and ecological processes of healing, preservation, and transmission. Through diverse modes of listening—oral traditions, rituals, dreams, visions, and song—the body is understood as a vessel: a carrier of forgotten histories and an encoder of embodied knowledge.

Featuring objects and practices that exist at the intersection of art, care, spirituality, and sonic thinking, the exhibition engages with sound that exceeds the merely audible. It invites a deeper, more sensorial form of listening—one that is intimate, intuitive, and transformative.

The museum building itself can be seen as a resonant body: a unique sonic architecture in dialogue with the nature that surrounds it. The flowing Seine, the symbolic geometry of the garden, and the presence of aromatic and medicinal plants create a constellation of sensory connections. These elements invite the public to open their perception—to imagine their own bodies as instruments, as mediums for embodied, situated, and active listening.

Artists : Rada Akbar, Nevin Aladağ, Brook Andrew, Meris Angioletti, Katy’taya Catitu Tayassu, Paula Valero Comín, JJJJJerome Ellis, Célia Gondol, Yoshimi Futamura, Guadalupe Maravilla, Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien, Sara Ouhaddou, Vesna Petrešin et Charwei Tsai.

Curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorak
Curatorial advisors: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care
Curatorial Assistant: Marion Mille
Exhibition Coordination: Golzar Yousefi, Amina Ait Ali
Scenography: Zeynep Inanc
Graphic Design: Christophe Clarijs

Photo credits:
Frédéric Poletti