The Art of Mushrooms aims to demonstrate how art and science, nature and humanity can exist together in inspired symbiosis. Ursula Le Guin, in her 2014 lecture Deep in Admiration, suggests that art, poetry and visual culture could help rethink how we view nature. She wrote, “one way to stop seeing trees, or rivers, or hills, only as “natural resources” is to class them as fellow beings – kinfolk.” Genetic research has revealed mushrooms to be neither plant nor animal, but their own natural kingdom. In fact, fungi share a common single cell ancestor with humans. Our interest in fungi shows how humanity is striving for alternative forms of living in harmony. For many artists, mushrooms represent Utopia.
Fungi and Discovery – David Fenster; Jon Cowan; Hamish Pearch; Sofia Arez; Carsten Holler; Takashi Homma
Mushrooms and the Mind – Angelo Plessas; Jeremy Shaw; James Kerr; Laurence Owen; Seana Gavin; Stephan Doitschinoff; Perks and Mini; Sylvie Fleury
Mushrooms in Horizon – Mae Ling Lokko; MycoLyco; Pentagram; Jonathan Zawada; Kristel Peters; Vanessa Barragão; Diana Policarpo
