In Magnifera, Adrienne Renée Weiss and Lydia Daniller create a space of eco-erotic power and protection. Inspired by the “Adder’s Tongue Credenza,” Northern Renaissance tableware designed to protect nobility from poisoning at banquets, they’ve created an inversion wherein queer pleasure acts as an antidote to the poison of present day nobility.

Adrienne, a spell-casting spinster, draws on symbolism from esoteric lore and textural intimacy to lure people towards liberatory desires. Through fibers, steel, clay, and the slippery wonder of mangos, she uses ancient technologies and encoded materials as a strategy for subversion.

Lydia, a garden voyeur, who asks her photographic subjects to show her the ways in which they love their plants, creates hunger for the bounty of the soil. Her work is an assertion that as we collectively face the depravity of advanced capitalist systems, we need wild imagination, we need joy, and we need to follow the guidance of Earth tenders.

Magnifera is an openhearted, playful invitation into imagination, love for what grows from the soil, and the medicinal waters of community ritual.

465 Collective, San Francisco, CA

2025