Torso Kelevra, 2023
Kelevra unfolds as an assemblage where anatomy is fractured and recomposed into a body that feels at once fragile, ornamental, grotesque, and precarious. Eroded wings, gilded torsos, and improbable appendages converge in a suspended figure closer to a post-human hybrid.
The work is part of the series of Actors, yet its construction emphasizes play and intuition. Like Ox and other pieces born from a similar process, Torso, Kelevra (2023) was not designed through a fixed plan but through improvisation: adding, removing, and recombining elements as in a game. This playful logic generates unexpected symmetries and resonances, shaping a figure that feels simultaneously archaic and futuristic.
Rather than aspiring to a stable identity, Kelevra embraces ambiguity. Its surfaces suggest fragments of vernacular culture—ornamental, kitsch, baroque—woven into a body that resists definition. The figure becomes part of Huacuja’s broader cosmology, a character that bridges his monumental portals with the more intimate scale of modeled busts and assemblages. In this sense, Kelevra connects with sculptural traditions that explore the monstrous and the hybrid, while situating itself within a specifically Latin American energy of bricolage and invention.
Esteban Huacuja
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