We mainly use fungi, better known as moulds, for our own benefit, whether as food or building materials. However, curators Anna Tsing and Feifei Zhou (terriStories) take a very different approach in their exhibition, FUNGI. Here, moulds and mushrooms appear as designers, allies and builders in a world far beyond human control.
Almost all of the artworks in the exhibition were created especially for FUNGI by teams at the intersection of science, design and the visual arts. You can see how mould manifests in sick frogs, in your dishwasher, on hospital beds, in termite mounds, in the human digestive system and on coffee, banana and conifer plantations, as well as in the jungle.
The exhibition provides a unique total experience across three rooms, revealing fungi as independent beings that create a unique, multi-species world flourishing on the ruins of capitalism.
Location: Gallery 1.1.
