
Turning Lucks
2022
Turning Lucks assembles a constellation of charged materials, a hand-dyed cast net, rabbit fur, a horseshoe, lead weights, hemp cord, steel, and acrylic paint, into a hanging sculpture that oscillates between ritual object and activist gesture. Made in 2022, the work draws on Carolina Caycedo's sustained engagement with bodies of water, fishing communities, and the extractive pressures that threaten both. The artisanal net, dyed in deep saturated hues, carries the memory of collective labor and subsistence practice, while the horseshoe introduces the language of folk luck, superstition, and the fragile hope placed in talismanic objects by those who live at the margins of economic precarity. Caycedo, who works across installation, video, performance, and drawing, consistently situates her practice at the intersection of ecology, social justice, and cosmology. In Turning Lucks, the verticality of the hanging form suggests both a figure in suspension and a living net cast into an imagined current, its lead weights pulling downward as if still in motion. The pairing of animal materials with industrial components resists any easy reading, positioning the work between tenderness and structural weight, between inherited knowledge and imposed constraint. At 218.4 centimeters tall, the sculpture commands physical presence and demands to be encountered in the round. It is a work that rewards sustained looking, revealing new relationships among its materials as the viewer moves. Offered through Instituto de Visión and signed by the artist, Turning Lucks represents a meaningful opportunity to acquire a substantive object from one of the most urgent voices in contemporary Latin American and diasporic art.
- Medium
- Artisanal hand-dyed cast net, rabbit fur, horse shoe, steel, acrylic paint, hemp cord, lead weights
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Instituto de Visión
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