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In the autumn of 2019 I photographed fungi in Dudenpark, Brussels. Fungi are the oldest living species on our planet. They build and spread their communities across human borders, continents, laws ... They take over land without asking permission. They clean up toxic messes in disturbed landscapes and shake the land back to life to create livable grounds for animals, plants and maybe humans. They have the power to transport energy between weaker and stronger trees, to keep forests alive or to kill them. Their spores are invisible and spread and spread and spread. “The uncontrolled lives of mushrooms are a gift — and a guide — when the controlled world we thought we had fails.”


The project consists of an installation and a publication. The accrochage shows a number of blow-ups of marcro-photographed fungi. The prints will appear and disappear according to the temperature in the room. Two heating systems are installed under the works to provide change. By a timing system the heaters will go on and off. The viewer will not be able to control what he sees. Each hour the images will be different showing and hiding parts of the work. The (un) natural process of appearance is accompanied by the responsibility, care and patience of the spectator.


Fungi [kingdom] --- artistieke fotografie --- fotoboeken --- Segers, Dries

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Hotel Bellevue is a project about border trees. Border trees (or Grenzbaum) are planted on specific locations in the landscape to mark borders between properties and make them visible from afar. These trees were already located on historical maps and are subject to specific laws. They are a kind of guardian, but also a marker used by legal authorities to outline the area where they could wield their power, a tool to settle border conflicts. Because of a change in our landscape, and how we use land, these trees lost their status as a symbol and became a tree again. Centuries ago, border trees were a kind of signpost for people, they showed the direction to a castle, a farm or a church and were marked on maps. Currently there are 52 archived border trees in Flanders (Belgium).

When you think about border trees, you discuss territories, politics, crises, conflicts, botanical species, animals… These trees are not just wood. Natural worlds do not follow manmade islands. Look at fungi, they make up an enormous network that stretches beyond any kind of border, pollinators work wherever they find a flower from which to take pollen, birds migrate around the globe navigating it as a whole and not as a (flexible) puzzle of fragments. In a changing and unstable climate, the idea of border trees gives us the opportunity to reintroduce a local and community driven use of the landscape; they can help us learn from the stories and information imbued in these landmarks.

Hotel Bellevue is a manifesto for love, anger, desire to connect, speculate and study. Only things from the heart deliver.

kunst --- 77.071 SEGERS --- bomen --- Segers Dries --- ecologie --- biologie --- botanica --- plantkunde --- natuurfotografie --- fotografie --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Exhibitions --- Segers, Dries --- Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Art --- ecology --- trees [woody plants] --- onderzoek in de kunsten