Céline Pelcé

Eating is increasingly becoming an act of disconnection — disconnection from our bodies, from the origins of the food we consume, from the soil that no longer touches our ingredients, and from the people with whom we once shared daily rituals around the table. In a world of industrialised agriculture, supermarkets and ready-made meals, food is often stripped of its context — severed from the seasons, the labor of growers, the microbial richness of the earth, and the slow rhythms of nourishment. We are losing touch not only with what we eat, but with the most fundamental of natural cycles: from seed to decay.

As part of Earthbound. Worms, Soil, Decay, the curatorial duo d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet / Olivier Lacrouts) have invited Brussels-based designer and artist Céline Pelcé (she/her) to carry out a three-week research and production residency at Bridderhaus. Known for her work at the intersection of society, nature, and food, Pelcé will use her residency to explore how the essential act of nourishing the body — so often overlooked in contemporary Western culture — shapes our relationship with the soil and, more broadly, with the cycles of life and death.