Installation of 12 sound ceramics on soil

The ground we walk on is not a simple, inert material; it's a world in itself, complex and alive. The earth is loaded with symbolism: it's our planet first and foremost, the soil in which we grow our food, a raw material for construction, the surface on which we're anchored and on which we stand, the territory on which we live. Each ecosystem relies on a different soil, reflecting the bedrock on which it rests and the accumulation of organic matter from the living beings in the ecosystem: plants, fungi, animals and bacteria.
The sound part of the project was produced in collaboration with bio-acoustician Fanny Rybak, from NeuroPsi at Orsay University, and the Rillig group, from Berlin's Freie Universität, who specialize in plant and soil ecology. The ceramic part of the project was partly carried out in collaboration with ceramist Charlotte Poulsen.
Ecouter la terre (Listen to the earth) is a series of black ceramic sculptures, which seem to emerge from the earth as they are placed on the ground, giving voice (through an invisible wireless speaker system) to the sounds recorded from different earth samples. The “richer” the earth, the denser the sound activity.
Together, we attempt to capture the invisible exchanges we have as human beings with the living world. It's a constant but sometimes minute interaction, the richness of which I think it's very important to rediscover today.