reece brice
Title: Mycoremediation 2050
Artist: Reece Brice
Materials: Found plastic bottles, fishing line, plastic waste, 2026.
Year: 2025
Mycoremediation 2050, is an exhibition that shifts away from purely dystopian narratives toward a solution-seeking vision of the future. It imagines a world in 2050 where mycoremediation has been expanded into a global recycling intervention for plastic waste. The sculptural mushroom forms act as symbols of resilience, interconnection, and the life-sustaining intelligence inherent in natural systems. Constructed from discarded plastic bottles, fishing line and plastic waste, their materiality reinforces the urgent need to rethink plastic disposal while preserving the beauty and vitality of our environment, symbolised through the organic mushroom forms created from rigid plastic waste.The exhibition takes the form of a light-activated sculpture installation. Light refracts through the plastic mushroom structures, scattering fragments of illumination beyond the sculptures and into the surrounding space and onto viewers themselves. These spreading light patterns reference both mycelial networks as they process and decay plastic waste and the silent communication systems through which fungi operate in balance and cooperation. Visitors are encouraged to consider how the work engages with the surrounding environment, responds to night-time illumination, and interacts with movement, and public flow. As people move through the installation, the shifting light creates an immersive experience that emphasizes interdependence, between humans, ecosystems, and alternative futures. Mycoremediation 2050, proposes mushrooms not only as ecological agents, but as symbols of collective harmony and hope, offering a vision of repair rather than collapse

