After a phantasmagorical journey from the ocean depths to the surface of the earth, from the mythical fish-woman to a contemporary emancipated figure during the first Marseillaise edition of Odyssea – The Song of the Sirens – a nebulous, post-capitalist world now emerges, inhabited by creatures seeking change. “The Salt of the Earth” thus proposes exploring a different space-time, one that is hard to place in a linear history and resembles a narrative of anticipation. Salt, known for its corrosive and purifying properties, materializes here as piles of charred debris within which the artists’ works unfold.

Now reduced to an underground existence, the remnants of our societies survive beneath these vestiges. Objects from our era scatter the ground, mingling with those from a future that unfolds within the earth’s bowels. The last habitable space, the hollow of the world, shelters the traces of our civilizations. Ex-votos – relics of ancestral rituals whose meanings are now lost – mix with technological tools whose functions elude us. These scattered ruins, containing fragments of a vanished humanity, litter a black rocky ground that invades the gallery space. Visitors are invited to walk across this soot-covered surface, a symbol of a world in ashes, yearning for regeneration.