What happens in the space between intention and growth? Between the artist’s hand and the mycelium’s reach? Between our daily movements and the quiet accumulation of ecological breaks? Nature Doesn’t Draw Straight Lines brings together three artists: Zixiang Zhang, Antonia Ablass, and Joana Alarcão, whose practices exist in active negotiation with living systems—plants, algae, mycelium, and the environments they inhabit. This is not art about nature but art with nature: a practice of collaboration, patience, and surrender. In our accelerated contemporary world, we often miss the quiet changes and movements within the natural world that surrounds us- mycelium rewire itself around obstacles, algae bloom in warming waters, and trees adapt to buildings and concrete. Within their artistic practices, these artists create a dialogue of interconnectedness that brings forward these quiet ruptures and shows us that when we slow down enough, we witness other beings’ agency. The sculptures, installations, and drawings breathe, decay, adapt, and resist, honouring nature’s unique processes. By relinquishing control, these artists give back materials their own agency, creating space for them to become co-authors in the artistic process, allowing the straight lines of human design to dissolve into the curved logic of organic systems. The exhibition's visual and conceptual atmosphere aims to ask: What does it mean to create alongside, rather than upon? How do we hold space for nonhuman agency? What quiet tensions arise when we acknowledge our entanglement with systems larger and older than ourselves? Biophilic art practices offer more than a metaphor; they enact a different relationship—one of care, attention, and collaboration. They remind us that nature has never drawn straight lines, and perhaps neither should we.