Exhibitions
Mushrooms & Friends at Images Vevey
Sept. 7—29, 2024
Vevey, Switzerland
After visiting a Brooklyn mushroom farm in 2019, the artist Phyllis Ma was fascinated by the surreal appearance of the specimens growing under blue lights. For her series Mushrooms & Friends, Ma photographed both cultivated and wild species. The Chinese-American photographer highlights the diversity of their morphology and the beauty of these organisms, as mysterious as they are essential to our environment. The project highlights the growing importance of mushrooms in fields as diverse as food, construction and fashion. Presented in the basement of the Théâtre de Verdure, the installation pays tribute to the incredible ability of fungi to form an underground network, necessary for their survival and for soil regeneration. For Images Vevey, Ma collaborates with Mission Mycelium, a local mushroom farm in Vevey, to offer a supernatural experience.
Exhibition layout and design by Images Vevey and the artist.
In collaboration with Mission Mycelium.
