SIMBIOCENO

Can craftsmanship and manual creation bring us closer to a possible Symbiocene, understood as a possible future of symbiotic relationships between humans and the natural world? What paths exist, from ceramics, to guide us towards these possibilities? This is the first exercise - not without contradictions - by Ila Cerámica to approach these questions, not with concrete answers but as the beginning of a process of constant questioning and transformation, in search of radicalization towards paths consistent with the present and from a logic of "power with" and not "power over" nature.

It is an exercise in imagination, for now with metaphorical and symbolic approaches through forms and in collaboration with plants and flowers, on how this "symbiotic relationship" could manifest; on the ways in which everyday objects exist within this process of reconstructing the wild and on how, through these external reflections, we can transform the landscapes and internal paradigms from which we relate to nature. The pieces below were created using a simplification of materials, using local earth and unglazed textures for their finishes. The paths to explore are long and wide, barely opening up the possibilities of inhabiting ceramics from the will of regeneration and deep ecology, honoring and returning to the ancestral traditions that embrace this craft.