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ABERRANT PLEXUS

Zoetica Ebb at Metamorphika Studio November 20 – December 14, 2025

Announcing Aberrant Plexus, an immersive exhibition by Zoetica Ebb in cooperation with Peachthief at Metamorphika Studios.

For three weeks, Ebb and Peachthief transform the gallery into a living research site at IPGL (The Institute For Psychogametous Life) where an alien mycelium infiltrates walls, bodies, and psyche. Rooted in Zoetica’s ongoing engagement with the natural world and speculative biology, the project builds on themes first introduced in her book Chimeric Herbarium and the short film Galea Displodo Interaction.

At Metamorphika, a space dedicated to interconnection, Ebb expands this research into an interactive environment with sound by Takatsuna Mukai, where visitors encounter a rogue fungal intelligence that dissolves the borders of individuality.

Lenticus somnium diptych, Zoetica Ebb

The living network extends further. Guest tattoo artists, working as pollinators, translate Ebb’s specimens directly onto the skin of visitors. What begins as a static image on the wall evolves into a mobile, living extension of its recipient.

As part of the exhibition, Japanese avant-garde author, Kenji Siratori [@xenopoem], unveils Xenopoetic Report of Arthropod Vectors. Building on Zoetica Ebb’s concept of psychogametous lifeforms, Siratori’s new book stages language as a mutagenic entity propagating across species, media, and temporalities.

AUXILIARY PROTOCOLS

CRASH SEQUENCE // NOVEMBER 20

Body artists Fung Neo and Laboranta stage a research procedure gone awry.

Visionary choreographer Charlie Jimenez summons hybrid creatures from Chimera – the world from which the mycelium first emerged. Ritual and collapse erupt through movement, an embodied transmission of crash, contamination, and rebirth that pulls the audience into the living core of Aberrant Plexus.

SLIME SUNDAY // SPECTACLE + LIFE DRAWING // NOVEMBER 23

A laboratory experiment in collapse. This life-drawing session invites you to witness organism and host merge as slime entwines with models Séverine and Miss White. Mutating in real time, these protoplasmic bodies refuse capture.

SPORE TRANSMISSION // DECEMBER 13

Aberrant Plexus culminates with an eco-futurist soundscape by Latvian experimental artist, Waterflower. Performing with living mushroom instruments, she channels the voices of the mycelium in a transformative sonic work. The following day, she returns to the gallery to lead a mushroom-music workshop and give an artist talk. 

More TBA.

Aberrant Plexus positions art as organism, fed by the participation of visitors and the wider Metamorphika community. Informed by speculative ecology and emergent forms of regenerative consciousness, the project asks: what does it mean to be human when our future is irreducibly symbiotic?

Aberrant Plexus Zoetica Ebb Metamorphika Studio November 20 – December 14, 2025