From potato worlds to dancing vaginas: Ai Weiwei leads a dip into witchcraft and weird nature

The Quechuan language has 5,000 names for potato varieties – and over 30 words for the potato itself

Elsewhere, Caroline Achaintre’s hand-tufted wool hanging, Ghost Duck, and Florence Peake’s multidisciplinary work The Lichen Exists lead us through a liminal space of veils suspended from the ceiling into the experience of an animate Earth – “the lichen exists,” writes Peake, “the moss exists / And has no trouble in its own place, life, situation / You are a disturbance.”

Here, her vision of place is always bursting with the richness of secret, inner worlds and the juxtaposition of objects selected from the archive to set around her own work – bronze age vessels from Devon, an ancient goddess from Gaul, a bangle from Tripoli, a set of stuffed owls – moving time and histories to collapse in on one another with dizzying effect.

Inside, the main exhibition is introduced by the visionary film Matrix Vegetal by Chilean artist Patricia Domínguez, an eco-futurist installation displayed inside a sculpture of a mandrake plant. Inspired by the ayahuasca-supported teachings of Domínguez’s shaman guide Amador Aniceto, the work takes us on a journey through indigenous wisdom into the inner structures of vegetal life.

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