Like Water
Exhibition
Simone Fattal, At the Pool, 2015, collage on cardboard, 22.9 x 28.8 inches. Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York. Photo: Andrea Rossetti
Contemporary Art Museum
3750 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO, USA 63108
Mar 7 – Aug 10, 2025
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) presents Like Water, an exhibition part of the four-part series The Weather Inside. Featuring a diverse group of international artists, including Paris-based artist Simone Fattal, the show will explore landscape as both a physical reality and an internal emotional landscape, focusing on the multifaceted nature of water.
Like Water explores the dual nature of water—its life-giving and destructive capacities—its connection to the Mississippi River, and its profound symbolic role in both culture and emotion. The exhibition weaves together a rich tapestry of artistic expression, with works by Simone Fattal, Jamal Cyrus, Candice Lin, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, and Vivian Suter. Each artist approaches water and fluidity from a unique perspective, creating a dialogue that spans sculpture, video, ceramics, drawing, textiles, collages, and painting.
Paris-based artist Simone Fattal contributes a captivating selection of ceramic and bronze sculptures, drawings, and collages. Among her works are some of her earliest ceramic sculptures, created in California, which will be unveiled to the public for the first time in decades. This rare opportunity offers a glimpse into the evolution of Fattal’s practice. Her work, rooted in myth, history, and the elemental forces of nature, invites viewers to engage with the fluidity of time and the materiality of water. Simone Fattal will be present at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis for the exhibition’s opening, offering a special opportunity to connect with her vision.
Like Water encourages reflection on water’s emotional and poetic resonances, as well as its role within the shifting cultural, ecological, and sociopolitical landscapes that define our world.
Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation support this exhibition throught the Étant donnés program. Étant donnés is organized by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation with the exclusive sponsorship of AXA, in partnership with Institut Français, French Ministry of Culture and Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and ADAGP.
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ADAGP
Founded by artists in 1953, the ADAGP represents 240,000 authors worldwide, in all disciplines of visual art, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, graphic novels, street art, video art, digital art, architecture and more… At the heart of an international network of 55 partner organisations, the ADAGP collects and distributes royalties, protects artists and fights to improve authors’ rights. Today, it is the world’s top society of authors in the visual arts. Eager to place creativity at the heart of the world, the ADAGP encourages the creative scene by initiating and/or financially supporting projects to highlight visual arts and promote them on a national and international scale.
Albertine Foundation
Previously known as FACE Foundation, Albertine Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In close partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and its arts institution Villa Albertine, Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary, and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries thanks to corporate, foundation, and individual support.
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AXA
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French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs works to represent, defend and promote the interests of France and French nationals in all areas in foreign countries and international organizations.
Institut français
The Institut français is responsible for France’s international cultural program. Supervised by both the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and by the Ministry of Culture, it promotes French culture abroad through cultural exchange initiatives. Operating in a space where the arts, intellectual exchange, cultural and social innovation, and linguistic partnerships interact and intersect, it is also responsible for promoting the French language and the sharing of works, artists, and ideas all over the world. The Institut français is one of Villa Albertine’s main French partners.
Ministry of Culture
The French Ministry of Culture aims to make the major works of humanity— and especially those of France— accessible to the largest number of people possible. As such, it maintains a policy of conservation, of protection, and of development of all components of French cultural heritage. It promotes the creation of works of art and of the mind, and the development of art practices and education. It further contributes to cultural initiatives outside of France, and to initiatives relating to the establishment of French cultural programs throughout the world.