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      El Gallo feat. Raw Hide (2025)

      Porcelain, Wood & Polymer
      400 x 150 x 150 cm             El Gallo is an installation that gathered the central strands of my practice: the building and breaking of systems, the reconfiguration of cultural residues, and the use of assemblage to expose hidden structures. The work combined industrial framing, imprints of speed and impact culture, ceramic traces of consumer identity, and objects drawn from working-class visual histories. Each component acted as a fragment within a larger system — a set of clues to how cultural mythologies, labour, and aspiration are constructed and circulated.

      A suspended object signifying performance and risk, a ceramic surface echoing collision and vulnerability, a hand-drawn intervention placed on a makeshift table-like structure, and a crate bearing a single disruptive word all worked together to form an intentionally unstable constellation.

      El Gallo offered a compact expression of my wider inquiry: how everyday systems coalesce into form, and how reassembling their parts can reveal the narratives they quietly impose.

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