An international artist-led curatorial project on dark ecology
Symbiotic Drift presents over thirty international artists from Europe, Asia, and the Americas whose works explore how ecological, technological, and cultural forces shape material experience. The exhibition moves across painting, video, installation, sculpture, and immersive AI environments, tracing the shifting relations between bodies, tools, and environments.
Inspired by Timothy Morton’s ideas of the mesh and dark ecology, the project approaches artistic practice as part of a shared field of entanglement that resists clear boundaries – between living and constructed forms, between what endures and what disappears.
Set within a speculative horizon looking toward the year 2525, the exhibition considers the present as already marked by transformation and saturation, where fragile continuities of culture persist amid environmental and technological change. These conditions appear as hyperobjects – forces that organize life while remaining beyond full perception.
Unfolding over three months on Instagram and a dedicated website, Symbiotic Drift invites viewers to inhabit the network as a living space of exchange. The works address vulnerability, adaptation, and the ways materials remember contact. Together they form a study of coexistence that understands fragility not as weakness, but as a way of knowing.
Works are released gradually in rhythm with the exhibition’s progression on Instagram.
Rather than seeking resolution, the exhibition foregrounds fragility as a form of knowledge and coexistence as a method of artistic practice.
The project acknowledges inspiration from Špela Petrič’s Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Phytoteratology, which informs its approach to entanglement.
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Participating Artists
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Aissulu Kadyrzhanova
Inga Allakova
Julia Marinchenko
Vadim Mirgorodskii
Varvara Silanteva
Symbiotic Drift Curatorial Team
Anna Feldman – concept development, curatorial framework, coordination
Elena Binder – digital and visual curation, work integration
Roman Savchenko – visual system, exhibition layout, technical infrastructure
Maria Ansh – thematic development, artist liaison
Vadim Mirgorodskii – video direction, trailer production, conceptual input
Elena Binder – digital and visual curation, work integration
Roman Savchenko – visual system, exhibition layout, technical infrastructure
Maria Ansh – thematic development, artist liaison
Vadim Mirgorodskii – video direction, trailer production, conceptual input
The project was initiated with the early guidance of Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov.
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