The w(e)aves of complexity: Relational ontologies within the Symbios Art Exhibition

The works included in the Symbios art exhibition spread through various disciplines and mediums: painting, weaving, interactivity, sculpture, Bio Art and even A.I. Its transdisciplinary condition does not originate in the multi-mediality of its constituents exclusively, but in the intentional implementation of an ecology of meanings once the pieces, characteristically polysemic, are made for and placed in the gallery. The physical division of the two rooms that conform the exhibition space becomes what defines the type of interaction that the art works included will deal with, each area taken as a subcategory of the general symbiotic relationships. I proceed to find a correspondence of the symbiotic process in the social realm, more specifically, in the cultural process known as syncretism, that is also a distinctive aesthetic quality of the art works exhibited. Such a web of relational ontologies goes beyond the legacy of Conceptual art, now taken as a product of a Western paradigm that is based in dualism, classification, and exact definition. Instead, the show embraces the diverse narratives behind its components as a net of meanings and diverse cultural references, so to achieve a complex yet holistic approach to art making and curating simultaneously.