A World Consumed: On Brandon Ndife's Hygge

Brandon Ndife envisions a dystopic future overrun by fungal growths through his exhibition currently living on David Wirner's online viewing room focused on NY artists. The Exhibition was to opened late March but is now being displayed online as a result of the current Pandemic.

Hygge is structured in what is presumably an Ikea cuppoard. Decay and growth have absolutely overrun the internal cavities of the cupboard itself while the dishes stuffed within it are swathed and tarnished by the same warm black growth. There are a handful of pieces within the exhibit itself, but they all share the common traits of textured fungus adhered to home furnishings.

The future Ndife proposes is one that is more often the subject of the entertainment industry - a ravaged, post human world where survival has again become the centerpiece of life on earth. A key element that Ndife has differenciated with is rather than pursuing the notion of plantlife reclaiming our civilization in swathes of green, fungus has begun to break down and consume it.

In Ndife's future, mankind has not had its structures taken, but rather they have been crumbled and slowly erased from existence, ultimately leaving not even a memory of us behind.