The Fly agaric mushroom Amanita muscaria is known both for its beauty and its poisonous and psychoactive properties. It has been used in shamanic rituals and figures extensively in folk, popular and underground culture. The artist’s interest in Fly agaric mushrooms lies upon his quest for alternative perceptions and ways of knowing. The enlarged mushroom replicas are also an extension of the artist’s ongoing research around the idea of the ‘double’ and the ‘principle of division’, which he uses as a tool for understanding. Only through separation and hence division from its theoretically endless environment can something be first perceived, then contemplated and lastly understood, he says – within our means, of course, and only to a certain extend: the undivided whole remains an enigma. Mushrooms are themselves mysterious beings, as the often extravagant shapes, colours, and ingredients of the different species make little or no sense in an evolutionary context. They are, hence, symbols of uncertainty and ambiguity. Our existence has from the beginning been linked to mushrooms, which are able to thrive even in inhospitable areas, surviving different geological eras and ecological disasters. Fly agaric mushrooms always make up exactly half of the Giant Double and Giant Triple Mushroom sculptures on display at Les Moulins, with either one half or two quarters of other species of the same height attached to the divided A. muscaria. The enlarged mushroom replicas seemingly grow from the concrete ground of this rough industrial space, which used to be the cistern area of a paper factory. The Giant Double Mushrooms shown here have previously been exhibited at H?ller’s famous exhibition SOMA, at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, where live reindeers had the possibility to consume real Fly agarics and play with the sculptures.