Photo report: 'Metasporic Goddesses' with The Post Collective

For Kunst & Zwalm 2025, The Post Collective explored how people with a migrant background connect with the country and claim their right to flourish far from their homeland with their project Metaspora. In collaboration with the millers of the IJzerkotmolen, the artists organised ritual gatherings in Zwalm. These were inspired by holy days from their different cultures that are connected to wheat, and formed the basis for the work they presented on the art route. 

In the history of religions, traces of Mother Earth worship date back to prehistoric times. On 6 September 2025, a procession was held where the local Mary of the Seven Sorrows, Mary of the First Seed and Buryat shamanistic and Buddhist rituals came together. We connected with the body of Zwalm (the elements, plants, animals and people) and blessed the soil for the new sowing season, wishing freedom and fertility for the land and its inhabitants.