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

Metamorphika Studio is pleased to announce Aberrant Plexus, an exhibition by Zoetica Ebb in cooperation with Peachthief, running from November 20 to December 14, 2025.

For three weeks, Ebb will 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 her ongoing engagement with the natural world and speculative biology, the project builds on themes first introduced in her book Chimeric Herbarium and expanded in the short film Galea Displodo Interaction. At Metamorphika, a space dedicated to interconnection, Ebb extends this research into an immersive, interactive environment where visitors encounter a rogue fungal intelligence that dissolves the borders of individuality.

On the upper level, the gallery mutates into the Sensory Pollinarium, a hybrid study chamber for extraterrestrial flora. Here, Ebb’s meticulous dotwork drawings, at once Victorian botanical studies and fever-dream diagrams, line the walls. Each depicts alien plant specimens entwined with human physiology: parasitic, symbiotic, or something in between. These works act as speculative teaching aids, guiding visitors into a reality where species boundaries are porous.

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. Meanwhile, a lattice of translucent tubing snakes through the space, evoking mycelial networks, carrying signals and matter, and underscoring the exhibition’s central proposition: that art, like fungus, thrives through contamination and exchange.

As part of the exhibition, Japanese avant-garde author, Kenji Siratori, 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.

On opening night, Charlie Jimenez presents a choreographed performance that 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.

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

THE future is symbiotic.