INVASIVE SPECIES

Curated by Danielle Mezh

5 Jun—11 Jul 2026
Private view: Thursday, 4th June 2026, 6 – 9pm
Public Dates: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm

Hypha 1 / No. 1 Poultry

1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EN

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Though we do not end at the skin, we remain strangers to ourselves. What emerges from an encounter, slight and barely perceptible, is an unraveling. Slow, but gripping. Boundaries erode. Something ineffable seeps in. The self becomes a site of invasion.

Presented at Hypha Studios, Gallery 1 at No.1 Poultry, INVASIVE SPECIES brings together fifteen emerging and mid-career women artists who investigate how invasion and intrusion generate dissonance between our inner and outer worlds. Spanning painting, sculpture, moving image, scent-infused installation, sound, and gastronomy, the exhibition is accompanied by a programme of live events, including a series of site-responsive performances by DANCÆ, a Berlin-based dance collective that fuses choreography with performance art and electronic music.

INVASIVE SPECIES is not a show that speaks to the eyes first. It unsettles, then confronts. Drawing on Surrealism, mysticism, the natural world, the weird and the eerie, it assembles forms and frameworks that grow, creep, haunt, and disintegrate, aiming to articulate the tensions between the visceral and the restrained.

Artworks and psycho-sensory interventions operate as points of entry and disruption, activating the space through repetition, attunement, and heightened awareness. Hair, fibre, metal, parchment, and light recur throughout as materials charged with psychological resonance. Sculptural elements merge with the architecture, scent and sound permeate the space, and the familiar begins to dissolve.

Emerging at a moment defined by disconnection and dissonance, invasive species does not offer resolution. Instead, it asks audiences to confront the invasive, and to consider where it is held, how it is processed, and the channels which it moves through the self and beyond.