In a world unanchored from human memory, where existence pulses beneath soil and shadow, this exhibition invites you into a realm governed by fungi and their unseen kin. Here, the familiar recedes. Inspired by a tale of a fungus awakening—its forms unfurling, spores adrift, destiny bound to transformation—the exhibition delves into the many states of fungal and microbial being: dormancy and awakening, symbiosis and predation, proliferation and dissolution, weaving the cycles of life and decay. Fungi, with silent intelligence and chitinous forms, emerge as architects of transformation, joined by bacteria and microorganisms in shaping mysterious, intimate worlds.
Above and below ground, fruiting bodies erupt and spores drift on unseen currents. Patterns flicker and vanish, blueprints endlessly redrawn by unnamed architects. In this shifting terrain, the world is rewritten in other tongues—every surface a threshold to stories that refuse to end, even as all that lives is quietly claimed by the relentless spread.
About the artists:
Corry Vandermassen is an artist whose work explores the invisible and intuitive through poetic reflections on social, spatial, and metaphysical contrasts.
Mathieu V. Staelen is a painter whose oil-on-canvas works explore liberation, embodiment, and perception through layered, realistic imagery shaped by philosophy, photography, and personal experience.
Ō Moth is an interdisciplinary artist, lawyer and researcher, exploring how perception and identity shape reality through poetic attention to overlooked details and material tensions.
Marci Lorena Bayona, visual artist and photographer, explores motherhood, migration, memory, and our emotional ties to nature through analogue photography, mixed media, and personal narratives.
Barbara Alfonzo is a Guatemalan-Belgian artist exploring myth, memory, and the body through playful, transformative works in printmaking and organic media.
Carla Sánchez Cordero is an artist and a lawyer. Her compositions use translucent layers of vivid color that blend and flow together, creating a visual language that is both immediate and contemplative, inviting emotional connection.
Bruno Mertens is a multidisciplinary artist and therapist whose sculptural and ceramic works blend conceptual and narrative elements into an integrated visual language.
Frans Willem Korsten is a literary scholar working at the intersection of literature, society, and art, with positions at Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam).
PROGRAM
Feral UnNamed architects GermInate
Location:
Parce Art Studio, Palinghuizen 78, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Dates:
26 July 25 October 2025
Opened on thursdays to sundays from 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Other days on appointment.
Opening: on 26 July 2025 from 6-9 p.m. (with Tarot performance by Mario Torres)
Workshop: on 27 July 2025 from 2-7 p.m.
Mario Torres is a PhD researcher in law at Ghent University, focusing on strategic litigation and prisoners’ rights. He is also a professional magician.
Film collective: María Boto Ordoñez, Elias Heuninck and Félix Blume:
María Boto Ordoñez is a PhD in Life Sciences, scientist and researcher at KASK/School of Arts in Ghent, exploring sustainable colour in the arts through a life sciences lens and experience in bioart and biodesign.
Elias Heuninck is a media artist exploring landscape imagery and cinematic materiality through subtle disruptions of perspective across film, paper, and digital media.
Félix Blume is a sound artist and field recordist whose works reveal subtle connections between humans, other species, and their environments.
