A fascinating sensation, déjà vu allows you to travel between memory and reality, inhabiting the then and the now simultaneously. Yet, certainty is always slightly out of reach—these images, experiences and memories seem tantalisingly familiar—but were you really there? You will never know for sure, will you?

In this week's issue, 'déjà vu' spins mycelial webs of history, memory and embodiment. In Tuan Andrew Nguyen's work, transoceanic legacies of colonialism continue to play out in complex formations of identity and belonging; the violence of the past is reflected in the schisms of the present. The trifecta of capitalism, relentless modernisation and colonialism is also the focus of the Vietnamese collective Art Labor's exhibition at Para Site,

'Cloud Chamber', considering how we might responsibly engage with minority narratives. A longstanding interest in fungi at the biomaterials company MycoWorks translates into experiments with Reishi™, a cross between leather and fabric. American architect Paul Rudolph is remembered in a comprehensive exhibition at The Met, chronicling his architectural language and its stylistic evolution over decades.

"What I thought was a tree was a forest," the artist Sohrab Hura tells us, reflecting on the slipperiness of memory. Perhaps 'déjà vu' opens a door where it closes one, with our uncertainty sparking new beginnings.