Joris De Rycke
Ruderalia
The daily life of artist-botanist Joris De Rycke consists of constantly travelling between natural, urban and wasteland areas. Along the way, he collects things. These include physical objects (driftwood, seeds, stones, fossils and discarded items) as well as memories, cartographies of wild flora, and documentation of these in photographs and film. Together, this forms a workable humus from which images, projects, ideas and new journeys emerge. For Veldwerk, Joris made a film that documents the interactions between plants, animals, objects and people in various places between city, agriculture and industry.
BIO
Joris De Rycke (BE) graduated with a Master's degree in Graphic Design, Graphic Studio at KASK School of Arts Ghent in 2012. Since 2019, he has been working on the creation of new varieties of apple trees, germinated from discarded apple cores in port areas and transit zones. He is currently developing this collection of apples at the Verbeke Foundation. In addition, he is mapping the urban flora of Antwerp together with a group of amateur botanists and works as an art teacher at Sint-Lucas KSO Antwerp.
