In the Poyaudin landscape, where the land has shaped the identity of a region for centuries, three artists and three residents have been invited by Maison Composer to weave new dialogues between ancestral practices and contemporary creations since 2024.

This creative residency raises a question: how can local skills (mushroom cultivation, ceramics and pottery) become vehicles for reflection on our relationship with living things and time? Between the domestic and the wild, between the ephemeral mycelium and the permanence of minerals, between the strata of the soil and the vibrations of stone, the exhibition Straw, Earth, Stone reveals the invisible links that unite our daily actions with geological rhythms.

The duos formed embody a philosophy of working together, where the transmission of knowledge is combined with artistic experimentation. In the straw bales where Zoltán Babos cultivates his mushrooms, Karine Bonneval captures the sounds of the mycelium and attempts to establish inter-species communication through music; the earth modelled by Judith Lasry is transformed into domestic altars under the hands of Gabrielle Manglou; the stones collected around Lorraine Patoir's workshop sing thanks to Louis Pierre-Lacouture's devices.

This exhibition invites us to listen to what materials have to say, to discover the poetry of craftsmanship, and to rethink our coexistence with the mineral, plant and fungal worlds.

Karine Bonneval & Zoltán Babos : The Whispers of Mycelium
Among Zoltán Babos's blocks of oyster mushroom and shiitake mushroom cultures, Karine Bonneval deploys protocols for listening and mutual familiarisation. Inspired by John Cage, a passionate mycologist and renowned composer, she records the tiny sound variations that pass through the straw substrates while playing experimental compositions to the mushrooms. This research on the concepts of aramu and ikiamia – cultivated by humans versus cultivated by spirits, according to the Achuar – questions our categories of domestic and wild. The blocks of culture ‘released’ into the meadow become witnesses to a controlled wildness, while helmets seeded with mycelium invite visitors to immerse themselves in the acoustic universe of fungi. Marc Plas' video Kino Grib integrates and dialogues with Karine's installation, with mushrooms appearing to reveal the unique place fungi occupy in our cinematic imagination.

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