Press release:
We are delighted to invite you to the press preview of the exhibition Resonant: Bodies, Songs, and Strings at the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO (MACS MTO), the first museum dedicated to the art and culture of Sufism. Since opening last autumn, MACS MTO’s second exhibition continues the institution’s distinctive approach to presenting Sufism in direct dialogue with contemporary culture.
Conceived by the exhibition’s guest curators as both a sensory and introspective experience, Resonant: Bodies, Songs, and Strings explores how knowledge circulates through sound, vibration, and listening. The exhibition brings together works by fourteen contemporary artists in conversation with a rotating selection of Sufi artworks and cultural objects from the museum’s permanent collection.
Artists: Nevin Aladağ, Rada Akbar, 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 Petresin, and Charwei Tsai.
Curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorak, with curatorial advisors Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care.
Claire Bay, President of the Board of MACS MTO, Golzar Yousefi, Artistic and Cultural Advisor at MACS MTO, the curators, and a selection of the artists are available for interviews. Please find the press release and images saved here in the press pack.
Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO
6 Av. des Tilleuls, 78400 Chatou, France
Resonant: Bodies, Songs, and Strings
Exhibition dates: 6 June 2025 to 4 January 2026
Opening hours: Wed–Fri: 11 AM–6 PM | Sat–Sun: 10 AM–6 PM
Admission: 9€ Concessions available for children and other groups
Garden visits : Free
By train: 30 minutes from the centre of Paris – RER A to Chatou-Croissy
By bus: Lines D and E: Gare de Chatou-Croissy stop
By car: From Paris, take the A14 then A86 motorways. Exit 35a towards Chatou.
Free parking on the Island of the Impressionists
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Célia Gondol, Omni Tempore, 2018. Polished mirror-finish stainless steel.
