A Fungus Among Us

In the project A Fungus Among Us, Maja Bojanić uses fiction to explore the foundations of the institution of art. The installation allows us to listen in on a lecture on “post-restoration”, a notion taught within the university program of Advanced Post-Conservation Studies in 2224. It builds upon alternative heritage policies stemming from the discovery of The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Volume Two in the DobraVaga Gallery in 2016, and its subsequent erasure in 2023. 

The seminar resonates through a part of the supposedly closed-off piping system once connecting all repositories of art. If we listen carefully, we can hear the museums referred to as Departments of Gathering Decay and follow the legacy of a site where the pioneering explorations by the Institute for Mold Preservation once took place and which is now carefully protected and overgrown by mold. The piping leaks a future in which objects serve as supports for living agents and exhaustive restoration is seen as detrimental since decay became vital for deep-rooted preservation.

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