Symbiotic Echoes brings together four distinct exhibitions by Ilze Bebris and Robin Ripley, Dave Mutnjakovic, James Pocock, and Artem Struyanskiy. Across different gallery spaces, each artist explores the crucial balance between humanity and the...
Symbiotic Echoes brings together four distinct exhibitions by Ilze Bebris and Robin Ripley, Dave Mutnjakovic, James Pocock, and Artem Struyanskiy. Across different gallery spaces, each artist explores the crucial balance between humanity and the environment, the need for interconnectedness, resilience, and active engagement in response to the crises of our time. From challenging societal systems to envisioning ecological harmony, the artists invite viewers to reflect on a path towards a future of symbiosis and restoration.
Dave Mutnjakovic – No More Hiding / Canadian Pacific Gallery
This exhibition traces a decade-long artistic journey of personal healing, set against the backdrop of ecological crisis, social collapse, and spiritual fragmentation. In No More Hiding, Dave Mutnjakovic’s illustrations confront grief, trauma, and the resilience of the human spirit, exploring healing as a symbiotic process and how tending to one’s inner self directly influences the outer environment.
Ilze Bebris and Robin Ripley – A Conversation / Ann Kitching Gallery
In this collaborative bricolage-based installation, Ilze Bebris and Robin Ripley engage in a visual call and response through collage and assemblage. Unfolding as a shared language within the gallery, A Conversation forms a symbiotic dialogue, inviting viewers to reflect on our relationship with everyday objects, where the physical discards of contemporary urban life reveal both conflict with the natural world and the potential for renewed connection and meaning
James Pocock - No One Ever Asked / Beedie Living Gallery
In a series of street photographs, James Pocock documents everyday encounters, revealing the dissonance between human systems and the natural world. No One Ever Asked captures fleeting moments with elements of irony, juxtaposing signs of privilege and control with glimpses of nature and human vulnerability. By confronting these imbalances, Pocock invites reflection on how we can move towards the Symbiocene, a future era defined by interconnectedness with the environments we inhabit.
Artem Struyanskiy – Fuzzy Identities / Appleyard Parlour
Fuzzy Identities presents paintings by Artem Struyanskiy exploring symbiosis as a condition of contemporary vision, where human perception, memory, and representation are becoming increasingly inseparable from machines. Overlaying mystic symbolism with portraits of figures whose visual identities are contested, Struyanskiy uses AI image-diffusion and facial recognition aesthetics to further blur, crop, and abstract the images. The resulting depictions reflect on identity in an era shaped by reciprocal influence between humans and machines.
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