Nigredo Psychedelia took speculative alchemical philosophy as a framework for the creative process. Alchemy imagined the transmutation of base metals into gold and, ultimately, the creation of the philosopher's stone, a substance associated with perfection, transformation and life beyond death.

We approached that mythology not as a literal pursuit, but as a metaphor for artistic practice. Raw material is broken down, altered, recombined and pushed through unstable states before something new can emerge. In this sense, the creative process mirrors the alchemical one. Transformation requires disintegration first.

Nigredo, the blackening stage of the alchemical work, became the point of departure. It suggested decomposition, uncertainty and the dissolution of a previous state before another could take form. The event translated that process into a live environment where fashion, performance, installation and light could collide, destabilise one another and continually reform.