Order in Chaos (2025)

LAW AND ORDER IN SEBASTIAN BOESMI
Javier Díaz-Guardiola. Guadalajara (Spain), July 20, 2025

For both thinkers, choosing the right tool is crucial for our survival, or rather, for our appropriate and harmonious interaction with the world and the other creatures that inhabit it. At this point, Boesmi takes me directly to the heart of her work, to her " tool ," and, in this sense, she speaks to me of the biological—and also philosophical—concept of autopoiesis, that is, the capacity
The ability of any system, especially living beings, to reproduce itself and maintain its structure over time. That is, it is the capacity of the whole to continuously generate its own components and maintain its identity through internal processes.

Why not apply that to the painting process ?

Our interlocutor confesses to me that this would be his last investigation into technology, his way of dealing, for example, with the push of Artificial Intelligence, which, obviously, is here to stay.

Boesmi is training a loRA (or low-rank adaptation), or in other words, a programming system that allows adapting large machine learning formulas to specific tasks with the fewest computational resources.

In simpler terms: our artist uses AI to "teach" it to identify its own paintings, its own works, so that it obviously doesn't end up painting exactly like him, but rather so that it provides quick solutions, small sketches, of possible approaches when he himself has to face a problem. And, obviously, as a human, he is the one who ultimately decides whether or not to heed the response.

Isn't this bringing some order to chaos ?

If we turn to his sculptures, these again represent another kind of displacement. He calls them 'clandestine curatorships' when he deals with those neon lights that manage to bring into the gallery artificial forms (a graffiti that someone left on a wall) or natural forms (a lightning flash), all of an ephemeral nature, which materialize into something static in the exhibition hall.

And what about his ' piano bulls '? They are characters that allow him to expand his painting, to experiment with materials. Don't be fooled by their innocent appearance.

Sebastián confesses to me that, having been born a migrant, he has practically no tangible mementos from his childhood, no toys at all. In a way, ' Piano Bull ' (which by the end of the year might also transform into a puppy or a teddy bear) is the only one that 'survived,' since he constantly drew it in his notebooks, so that in an intangible way, through art, it was always with him. His arrival in Spain gives this icon a new meaning, given the strong symbolism surrounding the bull, closely linked to power and a certain masculinity that Boesmi tries to break with his work (and that's why its color is sometimes pink , currently associated with the blurring of gender lines but which once identified great men, hence why bullfighters still wear this color). His character thus combines sensitivity with strength, although this strength comes from within.

Painting also expands , not only spatially but also temporally , in Boesmi's work thanks to video.

In these proposals, the artist collaborates with other creators (Camilo Moreno and Javier Rodríguez) in a desire that the movement allows to crystallize an image of the invisible in a world like the present where the bombardment of images already prevents us from generating a real image of what is happening.

Once again, chaos without order and the desire for control . It's the digital pixel versus the microorganism or the boundless cosmic nebula. And all of it, as you yourselves can deduce, with its own autopoiesis.

Let us then surrender ourselves to the enjoyment of the work of an artist who conceives of his art as a continuum, in which each piece is merely a part of something larger, where each element fits with the others, generating a rhythm and reinforcing his message. Perhaps the message is camouflaged in the fluorescent colors, in the animated forms of his sculptures, in the hypnotic rhythms of his videos.

Don't worry: they'll overcome it easily. It's a matter of accepting the challenge and realizing that you yourself are the chaos within the established order . They'll thank you for it.