“Here, our rebellions will be the songs that bring us tomorrow. Our bodies, droplets, will seep into linear history and shift it from its course.”

In Aquatic Invasion, Josèfa Ntjam deploys mythological, political and artistic elements associated with water and its cult.

The figures evoked – from the goddess Mami Wata to techno music duo Drecxiya, from the “boatless” of Ancient Egypt to the water spirits of Central Africa – will emerge from the depths to stir their fictions. The artist and her guests will reinvent these tales of the deep, recombining them in a way that speaks to today, through poetry, sound, dance and image.

Aquatic Invasion becomes, then, a rising tide borne forward by the energy of words and bodies, an apocalyptic flood coursing over the surface of our worlds, the darkness risen from the deep.

With: Fallon Mayanja, Aho Ssan, Hugo Mir Valette, Nach, Sean Hart, Nicolas Pirus, Steven Jacques, Bamao Yendé & Le Diouck, Monochrome Noir, Crewrâle 93 and Lala &ce.

With the generous contribution of Nathalie Talec and Galerie Maubert.
The pieces of the GIMME SHELTER collection, produced by NATHALIE TALEC, will be presented during the evening performances

Many thanks to Mokoo, Marine Serre, Rombaut, Karatvanier, Tétier, Colombe d’Humières, LaFalaise Dion, Rohan Mirza for DNA* and to the Ritual Projects showroom with the brands GmbH, Li-Ning, Boramy Viguier et Y Project.

Launched in 2017, La Manutention is a residency programme for performance artists that aims to encourage exploration and experiment by providing them with opportunities to develop their practice and create novel works for public presentation.