ABIOGENESIS
Artists:
Juan Walker
Alicia De La Torre
Alvaro Diego Gomez Campuzano
Joel Grossman
Mauricio Jaramillo
Santigo Andres Torres
Ximena De Valdenebro
Yury Forero
Evelyn Tovar
Javier Barrios
Mario Velez
Rosell Meseguer
Jeison Sierra
Camila Botero
Ana Maria Poveda
Sara Montoya
Widy Ortiz
Curator: John Angel Rodriguez
Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life has emerged from non-living matter. Although the details of this phase are still unknown, the predominant scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living entities to living entities was not a single event, but an evolutionary process of increasing complexity that involved molecular self-replication, self-assembly, self-catalysis, and the subsequent appearance of cell membranes.
The artists who are part of this project propose to reconfigure the notion of origin through different creative devices. Therefore, the works that arise from this collaboration configure a new origin, in which the ordering of things arose from a response to a random stimulus. Movement, shock, and collision were phenomena that originated in life, and they were initially inorganic. This interface from the inorganic to the organic is what each artist materializes in their pieces.
The reflection that we can draw from this collaborative gesture between this group of artists who investigate the concept of origin and the response to random stimuli is a fundamental question: how will we cooperate as a civilization to reorganize and redefine the world? Will this happen by learning to recognize and inhabit with our now enhanced senses, overcoming the obstacles of technological mediation?
As a civilisation, it is necessary to understand that we must generate a new symbiosis between human thought and nature, combining ancestral wisdom and new knowledge assisted by technology and scientific understanding.
