The SHAMBLES Family

mushrooms are monsters too

their spores hitch-hiked to earth on the back of a meteor and now three generations of alien fungus wander the planet seeking friends and new family. might you listen to what they have to say?

the childlike, conical “ooglu” fruits first. then, Reaching mid-life, they will sprout four legs to become the reclusive “shambles”. And finally, reaching old age, they shrink down into the wise (and cheeky) “oma” before death starts the cycle anew.

Materials: Textile, chicken wire, stilts, boning

Photography: Charlotte Michel, Maro Deierling, Yonatan Weizman, Mariam Tataridze, Holzmarkt

Garbicz, Poland 2025; Holzmarkt, Berlin 2026

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