« This story begins with the discovery of archaeological excavations composed of everyday objects and a bas-relief bestiary belonging to a civilization from the Saponarian age. These elements are accompanied by Concretions from the Depths, a bas-relief sculpted in beeswax, which can be interpreted as a sheet of bryophyte draping over stones or as animal skin, standing upright like an altarpiece.

Roxane Métayer’s visual and sound work draws heavily from her observations and inspirations during walks in the forest—a vast and intricate territory she has explored for years.

From the countless hours spent observing, listening, filming, and recording, Roxane has developed a sensory memory, a reservoir from which she draws to cultivate a world that mirrors animal mimicry—a familiar yet slightly disjointed universe, with a strangeness that feels like a subtle phase shift.

Some animals, plants, and insects possess remarkable camouflage abilities, mimicking the patterns of their environment to blend in, disappear, and conceal themselves. In a similar vein, the artist channels this notion of mimicry through her creative process by blending field recordings made in the forest with her own musical compositions. She often plays the violin in the forest, treating it as a tool for interspecies communication. This practice inspired her to imagine a dialogue with wildlife, experimenting with sounds that imitate animal calls, birdsong, and insect signals.

In this sound installation, Roxane Métayer constructs a universe reminiscent of a mycorrhizal root network, where sound pulses and shifts. Her Sporophonic Devices take inspiration from the mushroom, both for its aesthetic allure and its biological mechanism of sporulation—reimagining sound frequencies as spores that propagate and multiply their sources ».

Marjorie Bonnet, mediator and curator

Sonor nap for the Summer Day at @iselp_brussels during the 20th of june 2024.
A live with my violin and my voice, percussions, a jaw harp, shell whistles, sounds moving between seven ceramic speakers and sleeping people.