“In their hands, the mushroom becomes not an object but an inescapable feral imagination, with the exhibition a proposal to clean the plate and start over.”
– Writer and curator
Lou Mo, reviewing anthropologist
Anna Tsing and architect
Feifei Zhou’s interdisciplinary show at Het Nieuwe Instituut (NL). Instead of romanticizing fungi as trendy biomaterial, Mou argues that “
Fungi: Anarchist Designers” presents mushrooms as agents whose “boundless growth more closely resembles the expansionism of colonial and capitalist endeavours.”
