back2soilbasics

The roots of back2soilbasics lie in and around Brussels, where a group of people of colour began organising spaces around permaculture and ecology. They are literally seeking to reconnect with the ground beneath their feet. In doing so, they focus on local, racialised and often marginalised communities. They believe that cooperation with the more-than-human is the only way to achieve a thriving human society and share the desire to (re)connect with the ground in which we are planted.

In Zwalm, back2soilbasics proposed to reflect on how we use our land and how it could be used. Land used to be sacred, full of life and potential, rich in nutrients and stories. They showed photographs they took at Mahécor Diouf's organic farm La Bergerie Bever. By placing these images of an alternative approach to agriculture in the landscape, the collective speculates on the potential of the land if it were to be given back to the people of the earth. Whose hands could (still) be digging in the soil?

The photographs on display were taken by Vanessa Minacapelli, Ánima O. Cassamajor and the members of back2soilbasics.