When the Rain Comes (exhibition)

When the Rain Comes is a multi-screen film exposition that invites viewers into landscapes where mountains, rivers, and rainstorms raise urgent questions about the way the world is turning. Natural elements become both stage and metaphor for stories of social struggle—some glowing with resilience, others mourning what cannot be retrieved.

The title refers to a film by Paul Shemisi, member of Collectif Faire-part, who speaks with residents of a flooded Kinshasa neighbourhood about mudslides and cloudbursts – their suffering, their strength, their resistance. From this starting point, Collectif Faire-Part brings together short films that present natural elements both as arena and as symbols for social change.

You are welcome to sit beneath these videotaped trees and feel the rain.

deSingel, Antwerp, BE
opening - Thursday 22/01/2026 - 19:00 until 23:00
expo - 22/01/2026 - 01/02/2026

with films by Mawena Yehouessi, Shinya Isobe, Rob Jacobs, Paul Shemisi, Davide Tidoni, Charley Case and Colectivo Los Ingravidos