Savage Growth: Into the Luminous Grove
SAVAGE GROWTH: Into the Luminous Grove is an immersive, multi-sensorial exhibition incorporating sculptural installations, film projections, performance art, and sound designs. This collaborative project between Kyuubi Culture and Negar Tajgardan explores the symbolism of wild fungi and showcases the incredible resilience of these life forms.
Fungi are biologically diverse and can survive in harsh environments where other species struggle to become established. Symbolically speaking, fungi and their associations have been widely used in numerous philosophical, sociological and economic theories. As diasporas and queer artists trying to survive and thrive in an unfamiliar environment, Kyuubi Culture and Negar Tajgardan also require creativity, determination and fungi-like resilience.
All materials used in this project share certain properties: luminosity, transparency and artificiality. The exhibition project juxtaposes organic subject matter to the highly synthetic media used to portray it, in this way elevating mundane considerations of fungi to ethereal and incandescent entities deserving of wonder. The gallery is intentionally darkened, transforming it into a theatrical, immersive environment. The ever-expanding and engulfing darkness provides an excellent stage for showcasing the most subtle changes in colour and light.
SAVAGE GROWTH: Into the Luminous Grove is an immersive, multi-sensorial exhibition incorporating sculptural installations, film projections, performance art, and sound designs. This collaborative project between Kyuubi Culture and Negar Tajgardan explores the symbolism of wild fungi and showcases the incredible resilience of these life forms.
Fungi are biologically diverse and can survive in harsh environments where other species struggle to become established. Symbolically speaking, fungi and their associations have been widely used in numerous philosophical, sociological and economic theories. As diasporas and queer artists trying to survive and thrive in an unfamiliar environment, Kyuubi Culture and Negar Tajgardan also require creativity, determination and fungi-like resilience.
All materials used in this project share certain properties: luminosity, transparency and artificiality. The exhibition project juxtaposes organic subject matter to the highly synthetic media used to portray it, in this way elevating mundane considerations of fungi to ethereal and incandescent entities deserving of wonder. The gallery is intentionally darkened, transforming it into a theatrical, immersive environment. The ever-expanding and engulfing darkness provides an excellent stage for showcasing the most subtle changes in colour and light.
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