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The Art Explora festival opens in Le Havre on Thursday, October 1, 2026, starting at 1:00 p.m.; admission is free. The opening night begins at 6:00 p.m.—priority will be given to those who have reserved their tickets in advance online.

On board the museum ship, discover “Song of Water,” an exhibition that pays tribute to the ocean, to the memory of the life it shelters, and to the diversity of the creatures that inhabit it. The exhibition draws inspiration from the evocative power of this vast soundscape, where every species, every current, and every breath come together to form a single song of life. Structured as a journey, it invites visitors not so much to contemplate the oceans as to listen to them, immersing them beneath the waves in a world where art and science converge.​

Trace the history of art with *The Art of the Ocean*, from the earliest explorers to modern times, directed by Amaury Chardeau and produced by Upian. From accounts told by early navigators to images captured today by deep-sea robots, the film explores how the ocean has become, in turn, a realm of fantasy, a subject of scientific inquiry, and the inspiration for works of art.​

Spend twelve minutes immersed in an immersive soundscape, lying on a deck chair set up right by the sea. At first, you hear the ocean coast—waves, wind, and the cries of seagulls—then, without a break, the transition underwater: once in this new world, the sounds of nature blend with those of human activity, illustrating humanity’s encroaching presence on marine ecosystems. This creation by the Oreille Indiscrète collective, in binaural ambisonic sound, consists primarily of sounds recorded by hand from all corners of the world.​

With the exceptional collaboration of the Louvre Museum, Art Explora showcases "Present", an immersive exhibition highlighting female figures in Mediterranean civilizations, through the Louvre's collections. This digital experience combines education, art discovery, and contemporary audiovisual technologies to offer a journey through millennia of history.

"Psychosphere," an immersive underwater world that invites the public to discover the origins of life in the deep sea. This work by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen offers an immersive journey into the depths of the ocean, blending original sound recordings with digitized images of volcanic vents, fossils, and fish species. The result of five years of research conducted alongside scientists and expedition vessels, Psychosphere offers new perspectives on our relationship with ecological systems.

The proposal is entitled In the Depths and takes the form of a performative lecture. It begins with the real history of the Atlantic as a space of violence and memory: the slave trade, ports with a Black presence in Spain (Barcelona, Seville, Cadiz), and how this past has been silenced or fragmented. From there, it takes a creative leap into the realm of the imaginary: how artists such as Drexciya have paved the way for thinking about the ocean not only as a tomb, but also as an archive, as a place of possibilities and future.

Inspired by Nkisi’s ongoing research into the ethnographic music archives (1893 till present), ‘Serpent Songs’ invokes the serpentine movements of sound and the migratory paths of its vibrations. The musical composition delves into the psycho-acoustics inherited from ancient musical traditions. Here, music emerges as an enchanted consciousness; a vessel for its mythopoetic remembrance. Inspired by the primordial snake ancestors of these ancient traditions who shaped landscapes, rivers, and hills, ‘Serpent Songs' traces the trails of music they left behind.