Project

Meditative Symbiosis

Country

Chilie

Our conception of the world is based on our own bodily sensors: sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste. From these, we have historically created a specific worldview and language to explain the world from our human-centered perspective. Meditative Symbiosis invites us to shift this gaze to a broader axis, to a more-than-human realm, based on the sensory perception of a plant species (soleirolia soleirolii), based on its photosynthesis, specifically its cycles of carbon dioxide fixation and respiration.

The installation traces a quiet dialogue between a living organism and an electronic presence. Enclosed within a specially designed vessel, a plant’s breath—its photosynthesis—is sensed through carbon dioxide sensors, translated into shifting fields of light patterns that return to the plant. In this looping exchange, growth is gently stimulated. Plant and system respond to one another, co-evolving in a shared rhythm that reveals the ongoing conversation between biology and technology. The state of mutual coexistence between an electronic system and a plant species speaks conceptually and physically of circularity and connects with concepts such as the “between” coined by Donna Haraway, practices of reusing environmental resources, or policies focused on social systems in harmony with nature.