On the other side of the wall, The Landscape, 2019
The installation consists of a sloping wooden frame that is covered with black earth which contains spores of mushrooms. After a week the mushrooms start growing making a beautiful pattern of white spots on the black earth. The installation is has a curving floorplan that the visitor can walk through. Because of the burdened past of this part of Flanders which was involved in the devastating Ypres offensive at the end of the First World War the dark earth hills with the white champignons have a reference to the horrors of war.
Zeger Reyers made a comparable installation in the Renaat Braempaviljoen of the Middelheim Museum Antwerp at the end of 2010.