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The exhibition was born as a tribute to two important figures in the life of Jan Fabre and turns out to be a hymn to life. Songs of the Canaries is a tribute to Robert Stroud, known as “Birdman of Alcatraz”, a prisoner who studied canaries for a long time, creatures that even in captivity do not lose the strength to sing and inspire the mind. Songs of the Gypsies is instead dedicated to Django Reinhardt, a virtuoso Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist, who managed to embark on a successful career, despite the serious impairment of his left hand due to an accident as a boy. Between these two sources of inspiration, the artist pours all his symbolism, innovation and personal intimacy to explore the relationship between matter and spirit, making unconventional use of very different materials, such as Carrara marble, Vantablack (the blackest existing version of the color black after the Blackest black) and pencil and tempera colors.