Longlati presents the first solo exhibition in China of Mimosa Echard, which is officially part of the 2026 Festival Croisements program.

Titled 冬虫夏草 Winter worm, summer grass, the exhibition takes the inter-species metamorphosis of the cordyceps—a fungus that crosses biological classifications—as a metaphor for the mutation at the heart of Echard’s practice.

Bringing together over thirty pivotal works from the past decade alongside new site-specific productions, the exhibition presents her complex and prolific practice in a state of constant metabolism. It unfolds from a revisiting of her landmark installation Escape more, for which Echard was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2022.

The exhibition points toward the metamorphic quality of the “natural”. For the artist, “nature” is something inherently slippery and mutant, while also ordinary and everyday, an event that we all collectively participate in. Like the city itself, as depicted in Echard’s photography of Shanghai, this “new nature” is thoroughly permeated by human desire and the social and economic systems that condition it, constantly destroying its own image to become “something else”. Like Bruce Lee, like a parasite. Propelled by this ambiguous desire—an impulse intrinsic to the logic of 冬虫夏草 Winter worm, summer grass—Echard transforms the gallery into a resonant field of perpetual displacement.

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