Sporophore
Sound installation, trunks, mushrooms (Amadouvier), salt, sound system, 2014
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Two trunks lying in the piece. On their bark eroded by time pushed some mushrooms of different sizes. This dry atmosphere is animate by a sound environment that evokes a strange microscopic activity; decomposition, water movement across the spore, micro organisms moving … These sounds come from the mushrooms themselves through speakers hidden inside. They make an audible agitation usually imperceptible with sounds almost abstract of a probable internal world. The floor covered with salt crystals enhances the scope of this mineral / vegetal composition.
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