Cao Shuyi, Horizonless External Gut, 3D printed sculptures, 2022
Cao Shuyi, To Wander Beneath and Beyond, video, 2022
Artwork produced and presented with the support of M Art Foundation

New York-based artist Cao Shuyi was drawn in by a strain of fungus with the ability to digest plastic and latex discovered by the laboratory of Peter Mortimer at the Kunming Institute of Botany, and is using it to explore the shared evolution between the organic and the inorganic.