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Anouck Durand-Gasselin and Laurent Rigou - Following the trail of fungi: spore and mycelia or how to collaborate with a non-human species

For several years now, Anouck Durand-Gasselin, visual artist, and Laurent Rigou, pedologist, have been in dialogue about concepts that bring them closer together. Both consider the mushroom as a being in its own right, with whom they must collaborate. 

Anouck Durand-Gasselin has been developing the spore and mycelium project for over ten years. She tries to reveal something that would be "an expression of the forest" and creates spore images or even mycelium images with the complicity of fungi. Different scientific disciplines feed this project. The meeting with Laurent Rigou, a pedologist, marked a new turning point towards an approach more in line with the whole ecosystem and the different interactions of the fungi with the environment. Laurent Rigou takes us to the first layers of the soil where the mycelium develops and talks to us about the alchemical power of fungi.

Anouck Durand-Gasselin and Laurent Rigou propose a dialogue, from the soil to the soilless: the artist proposes a journey through the whole of her research, from the collection of spores to the mycelium culture, and the soil scientist sheds light on the artist's work with his own vision and practice.