Carbon Carbon Everywhere. Hypha Studios HQ London, August-October 2025

Daudy had two works in the show. One with her long term collaborator Kostya Novoselov “To Live Your Life is Not As Simple As To Cross A Field” 2019 and “Sound Passing Through Circumstance” 2019. Both works were commissioned by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the exhibition WonderChaos in 2019.

Introductory Essay by Indira and Maria Hines.

Integral to the constitution of our bodies, soil, air and some rocks, carbon is a highly bonding element that incessantly transmutes from state to state, each particle challenging the boundaries between life and non-life. Bringing together works by twelve international artists, Carbon, Carbon Everywhere explores the shifting states of carbon, an element that threads through organic and inorganic matter, linking bodies, environments, and temporal scales.

The title of the exhibition is a quote from the landmark essay titled Carbon by the writer and chemist Primo Levi. In the essay, Levi traces a journey of a single particle of carbon across distinct states and beings, from resting on a rock edge for hundreds of millions of years, to entering the world of ‘things that change’ – swiftly shifting from the atmosphere to the lungs of a falcon, to the sea, to the trunk of a cedar, and eventually entering the writer’s own body from a glass of milk on his desk. Resolutely specific yet universal, Levi’s story highlights the singularity of carbon as an element that inherently connects all things through its relentless transformation. It fossilises, mutates, preserves, pollutes and nourishes. From its ancient geological formations to its current atmospheric volatility, carbon is never still, shifting between forms and contexts in an ongoing process of exchange.

Featuring the works across distinct media, such as sculpture, painting, ceramics, video, installation, and material experimentation, the exhibition examines carbon through an entanglement of time and space. It asks how matter shifts meaning across bodies and systems. Making visible otherwise unseen physical processes of transformation and exchange, the works on view reflect on the notions of timelessness and change, preservation and destruction, order and chance, highlighting with palpable lucidity that everything is connected to everything else.

Artists

Emii Alrai

Kate Daudy

Konstantin Novoselov

Susan Eyre

Ania Mokrzycka

Simon Faithfull

Nissa Nishikawa

Mariele Neudecker

Anousha Payne

Aimée Parrott

Lucia Pizzani

Lizi Sanchez

Meng Zhou

Hypha Studios Carbon Carbon Everywhere

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Wonderchaos

Wonderchaos Catalogue on Amazon

Hypha HQ, London