Observing some fungi's sporomes -or fruiting bodies-, we can notice that their forms resemble other organic structures, other tissues belonging to species from other Kingdoms of Life. We can find fungi that look like brains, other intestines, a lot of genitalia, a heart, and a breast with a nipple. Even the common names of some allude to parts of the human body such as Xylaria polymorpha, dead man’s fingers, or Hydnellum peckii, the bleeding tooth.

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In the pandemic context, the collective consciousness that emerged around the microorganisms that surround us allows us to see how our bodies are fertile substrates for the proliferation of microorganisms; in our feet, in our genitals, in our armpits, in our mouths, in our hair, in our intestines and everywhere.

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The interconnections between both ideas are translated into Local Fungi that look like human body parts, a digital (Virtual Reality) video installation composed of a 3D model of a decomposing body, where mushrooms that resemble the organ where it is located bear fruit, and the video where a diversity of bodies that transgress the hegemony of binarism grow species of Chilean funga, on their body. The invitation is to think of our bodies as not only our own, to live in symbiosis with the microorganisms with whom we share it, and to recognize each human body as a unique and endangered ecosystem.