country
EN
Mycelium to Miyawaki forests at India Art Fair 2026
['Authors']
The Hindu - Home
Dumiduni Illangasinghe has always been “very serious about mushrooms” — just not in the way you’d imagine a 29-year-old to be.
Singh’s outdoor art project, titled Extinction Archival, comprises approximately 1,200 drawings of endangered and extinct species.
Art offered a new language using familiar tools — and also of looking at all that grows in the cracks of mankind’s built habitats.
Merging ecology with public art through a bamboo structure clad with the invasive lantana camara wood, the pavilion illustrates the architectural possibilities of ecological liabilities.
Borphukon identifies one key aspect that distinguishes younger artists’ ecological practices from earlier generations.