Triste champignonniste, 2017
A large part of life activity happens under your feet. For example, intertwined with the roots of the trees are fungi composed of a fascinating network of mycelium. In Triste Champignonniste (Sad Mushroom Farmer) 2017, Finel films a mushroom farm located in a former underground gypsum quarry. Due to the spread of a disease, the farm is abandoned. As art curator Clara Darrason points out, “The digital noise by Low-Light filming strangely activates and belies the stillness of the image. Actual rotting and decaying elements become intertwined with the deteriorating pixels in a metaphorical decomposition of the image.”
Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris