Praxis is pleased to present Conversations with the future: new weaves and touchmaps, a solo exhibition by artist Darlene Charneco (b. New York, 1971).

In her latest exhibition, Conversations with the future, Darlene Charneco invites us to inhabit an unfolding vision of interconnectedness and mutualistic evolution. Through her signature series of Weaves and Touchmaps, Charneco creates tactile, layered landscapes that reflect her inquiry into how we can sense, support, and better harmonize within the complex living ecosystems we are a part of.

Charneco’s mixed-media works are rooted in a profound meditation on symbiosis, interspecies communication, and the transformative possibilities of Symmathesy (mutual learning in complex relational contexts) . Inspired by the natural processes of co-evolution and the enduring resonance of ancestral craft, her pieces evoke the patient precision of lace-making, biological and planetary processes and the digital intricacy of ever-changing informational maps. As she hammers each nail in her sculptural fields, she envisions it as both a sound ripple and an aggregating topographical language. This process and practice of sending out ‘Letters to the Universe’ began in 1999, with heart-felt questions and hopes for humanity, and she shares her dreamvisions as interpretations of signal responses through SpaceTime.

Through symbolic forms in her pieces she calls Learning libraries and Memory palaces, Charneco shares glimpses of evolving immersive “visual databases” that allow us to explore, learn and collectively nourish thousands of nuanced ways to support each other and our planet. Each sculptural artwork becomes a point of entry into a complex ecosystem of shared knowledge and compassionate connectivity. Her works are a tribute and tool that orients us toward the delicate art of Sensing and of balancing ancestral and planetary interrelationships with technological progress. Charneco is not only imagining a more harmonious future but sharing the very strong inspirations and signals to actively nourish its seeds through continual small acts of microphilanthropy and support. Her pieces are part meditation, part determination and a renewal of this radical hope: May we recognize the planet’s intricately interwoven diversity as our collective strength and understand each of our unique roles in its complex beauty.

As part of an ongoing vow and vision that underlies the artworks, the artist continues to distribute a percentage from the sale of each piece to help nourish a garden of global causes and nonprofit organizations that are working daily to bring a more benevolent, compassionate world into being.