Mushrooms At The End Of The World
2023
objects overgrown with mushrooms, collage, video, 3’ 36’’
Fungi, a vast group of organisms that include species that produce mushrooms (spore-bearing fruiting bodies or sporocarps), are among the planet’s oldest inhabitants, connecting all life on earth. A vital part of our ecosystems, they are found everywhere around us and even inside us. They possess incredible transformative power: they turn rocks into soil, create medicines, produce poisons, cause hallucinations, clean radioactive soil, and degrade crude oil and plastic.
Mushrooms at the End of the World visualizes the way fungi transform everyday objects, buildings, and cities to create fertile soil for new beginnings. The work, which was inspired by the writings of anthropologist Anna Tsing and biologist Merlin Sheldrake, was developed in collaboration with the Slovenian microbiologist Primož Turnšek.
Mushrooms at the End of the World are part of the international project Forest Encounters, co-funded by Creative Europe.
The project was additionally Supported by Municipality of Ljubljana, department for culture and KUD Obrat.
Photographs by Polonca Lovšin
