Incumbo
Bending over the ground and lichens

This installation is the result of a week of workshops led by Karine Bonneval, visual artist, and Mehdi Harzallaoui, chiselling craftsman, as part of the Été Culturel programme and in collaboration with the Friends of Pesselières.
We spent 5 days paying attention to the small, almost invisible things that surround us: the lichens that grow in Pesselières and the soils that we walk across without paying them any attention.

Soil portraits
A chromatography process reveals unique portraits of each participant's soil. They form a small central forest, erected to the sound of invertebrates recorded in different substrates in Pesselières. A noisy soil is a healthy soil.

Lichen portraits
After observations and drawings in pencil and ink, using tools made from natural materials, we familiarised ourselves with the surprising and complex shapes of lichens. The result is drawings of brass and copper lichens, chiselled, cut out and oxidised, sprouting from branches like ex-votos. They are a tribute to this symbiotic creature, half-algae, half-mushroom, whose very slow growth forms micro-landscapes of infinite variety.

With works by :
Bernard Frément, Evelyne Cambefort, Pascale De Priestere, Alex Harzallaoui, Astrid Leseigneur, Amel Liénart, Damien Liénart, Ysée Liénart, Dominique Thomas, Elisabeth Ravaine, Elia Ravaine, Henny Wolters.