ABSTRACT
Art is a situation of encounter. “All works of art produce a model of sociability, which transposes reality or might be conveyed by it” The artist becomes a mediator, a person that fosters and provides situations of exchange, rather than a creator of objects. In the field of social anthropology, the “relational” turn in the last decades has been represented by authors like Marilyn Strathern, Roy Wagner, Philippe Descola, or Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. In reaction to the re-appropriation into new forms of capitalism of all the critical gestures of the past, one possible answer would be to reject relations—a nonrelational gesture that puts forward the irreducibility of the object to any network, connection, or process of becoming. Objects can be reduced by relations in two ways: first, to their constitutive particles as it is often made in science; second to their effects, or upward, like the social sciences often do.
