正秘密生长
We Are Thriving
on Minds
这个项目根植于在日益增加的变化和不确定性的社会环境下,神秘主义的返魅,反思了理性权威对人类与非人类领域的影响。项目以蘑菇与菌丝为媒介,从致幻蘑菇到普通蘑菇,抓取他们在地下秘密生长,分解废料,与周围自然物互利共生以及个别种类带有精神活性物质的特质,通过生物体培育,形态与环境模拟等方式,将有机材料和无机材料并置———它们分别代表不可控性和稳定性,自由意志与社会机器,试图将蘑菇与菌丝的实体与特质隐喻为在社会环境中的个体与少数群体,他们被权威,集权,多数所裹挟与淹没,却依然默默生长着。以此试图去反映在社会现实中被漠视的个体与少数群体的变形与异化,结合装置、雕塑、摄影和动态影像。
We Are Thriving on Minds, 21 x 30 x 30 cm
Freash mushrooms and mycelium, Substrate made from sawdust, coffee ground and hemp bedding, Acrylic with spray paints, Metal meshes with printed images, 2024
Freash mushrooms and mycelium, Substrate made from sawdust, coffee ground and hemp bedding, Acrylic with spray paints, Metal meshes with printed images, 2024
Night View
A Trip to Nowhere, Video, 3’00’’
Exhibition View, Royal College of Art Degree Show 2024
This project is inspired by the re-enchantment of mysticism in the increasingly changing and uncertain social environment, reflecting on the impact of rational authority on the realm of the human and the non-human. The project uses mushrooms and mycelium as mediums, from psychedelic mushrooms to ordinary mushrooms, capturing their secret underground growth, decomposition of waste, mutual symbiosis with surrounding natural objects, and certain species' psychoactive properties. Through methods such as biological cultivation, morphological and environmental simulation, organic and inorganic materials are juxtaposed—representing uncontrollability and stability, free will and social machinery. It attempts to metaphorically present the entities and characteristics of mushrooms and mycelium as individuals and minority groups in the social environment, who are engulfed and overwhelmed by authority, centralization, and the majority, yet continue to Keep growing silently. The project aims to present the deformation and alienation of overlooked individuals and minority groups in social reality, combining installation, sculpture, photography, and moving images.
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