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​AMETHYST DECEIVER

AMETHYST DECEIVER exhibition & zine launch 20 MAY 18H-22H - Atelier Concorde
Ana Sofia Sá, Inês Teles, Irit Batsry, Juliana Matsumura, Natalie Woolf, Nina Fraser, Tiago Rocha Costa, Pedro Faria 
Cont. 21-29 MAY everyday / 15h-19h
Curator: the icing room
Zine production: Nina Fraser
Sponsor/NFT's: Incubadora DAO

The amethyst deceiver is a purple mushroom that grows wild in forest areas across UK and Europe. Although it is safe and non-toxic, it's often mistaken for the highly poisonous and commonly found lilac puff. A simple mis-recognition between the toxic and benign, still, this reminds us of the constant presence of the wood wide web’s darker, more poisonous side. If fungus is a communicator, it’s also a parasite, an infiltrator…and this duality provides our entry point. Taking fungus as a communicator-parasite, AMETHYST DECEIVER explores the visualisation of conflicts between nature and modern civilisation, referring to subjects of ecology, hybridity, distortion and materiality that intertwine the artists’ individual practices. 
Above (from left to right)

» I wanted to have a meltdown but (2022)
Page from a national geographic magazine (1970 edition) ironed with beeswax
30 x 40 cm


» mycelium dependents (2022)
Collage, beeswax
30 x 40cm


» we deliquesce upon mountains of myrrh and hills of spices (2022)
Analogue Collage on board, mirror laminate
29 x 27 cm

» AMETHYST DECEIVER limited edition zine  (2022)
Mushroom inspired art, research, images, text, smears and spores, collected during the process of creating the exhibition
Featuring: Ana Sofia Sá, Inês Teles, Irit Batsry, Isobel Atacus, Juliana Matsumura, Natalie Woolf. Nina Fraser, Pedro Faria, and Tiago Rocha Costa

Edition /76


​Exhibition photography: Maria Leonardo Cabrita
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  • Work
    • 2025 >
      • Perception / finding ground
    • 2024 >
      • Deliquesce
      • Vegetal matters
    • 2023 >
      • mycelium
      • a study in psycho-cybernetics
      • CALENDÁRIO AVULSO
      • Winter leaves
      • Unconnected Yet
    • 2022 >
      • The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity
      • Unconscionable map
      • uma nova poesia visual
      • AMETHYST DECEIVER
      • Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds
    • 2021 >
      • Home
      • tales of turbulence and tulips
      • Circle series
    • 2020 >
      • (E)arthly Delights
      • The Garden
      • Found Landscapes
    • 2019 >
      • Taxis Derma
      • Menagerie
      • QUAL Paisagem
      • Winter Sunrise
      • Sublime
      • The Centre Cannot Hold II
      • The Centre Cannot Hold
    • 2018 >
      • Caught up in the field
      • Disconnected Event
      • FLYGA FLADDRA
      • Consequential
    • 2017 >
      • Shop Magazine
      • [framing illusive]
      • ROCKS
      • Bag Forest
    • > 2016 >
      • what might have been simply displaced
      • CHAOS &INFUSION
      • (un)form
      • Fragments
    • Drawing >
      • for the time being
      • Still, time
      • BODY & PLACE
      • Expanded Landscape
      • Islands
      • Abstract Markings
    • Print >
      • Menagerie
  • Info
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Texts >
      • Undomesticated Ground (text)
      • A Study in Psycho-cybernetics?
      • Home (text)
      • Learning from the bricoleur in times of crisis
      • Taxis Derma (text)
      • Sublime (text)
  • News
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