Immersive Visit, Connecting Currents
On the occasion of Saturday visitors, organized by the Botox(s) association, the Villa Arson art center invites Gil Lekh, an artist-researcher, for the creation of an Immersive Visit in the exhibition Becoming Ocean.
The visit takes the form of a scripted journey through the exhibition, alternating between readings, somatic gestures, collective breathing exercises, imaginative proposals, and moments of sharing.
Conceived as a sensory and collective journey, the Immersive Visit is a situated artistic mediation designed by artist-researcher Gil Lekh. It explores our relationship with aquatic environments, bodies, moving memories, and attachments, drawing inspiration from the oceanic feeling, a concept developed by Romain Rolland nearly a century ago that describes an emotional and spiritual experience where the boundaries of the self dissolve into an infinite whole, a feeling of wonder and fusion with nature.
However, the oceanic feeling, reinterpreted by contemporary voices such as Jackie Wang, Julia Kristeva, and Astrida Neimanisti, offers us new critical and political perspectives, of dissolving the self in the currents of revolt, of hydrological symbiosis in a world in decay.
Two writings by invited artists enrich this exploration with their unique perspectives. Claire Bouffay offers a viewpoint from the aquatic economy, questioning the imaginaries of work, value, and marine matter. Alexandre-Takuya Kato addresses environmental xenophobia through the displacement of species and racialized migration narratives in non-human environments.
More than a mediation, Immersive Visit, Connecting Currents is a collective activation: it questions the links between ecology, memory, affect, and creation, transforming the visit into a space-time of care, transformation, and shared drift.
Practical Information
May 24, 2025, from 2 PM to 3:30 PM
Visit by registration (the visit is part of the Saturday visitors’ tour and also includes a visit to Ugo Schiavi’s exhibition “The Midnight Zone” at 109 and the exhibition “The Song of Sirens” at La Station).
Address: Villa Arson, 20 avenue Stephen Liégeard, 06100 Nice