
Estrella Negra Guia (Omen for Good Fucks)
2022
Suspended in space like a ritual object caught between worlds, Estrella Negra Guia (Omen for Good Fucks) presents a hand-dyed artisanal fishing net gathered around lead weights and a nickel-plated steel plate, forming a sculptural body that is at once functional artifact and ceremonial presence. The deep coloration of the net, achieved through manual dyeing processes, transforms an object of labor and subsistence into something charged with symbolic weight, evoking the rivers, bodies, and territories that sit at the center of Carolina Caycedo's sustained artistic investigation. The lead weights pull the form downward with an insistence that reads as gravity, memory, and the accumulated burden carried by communities whose waterways and livelihoods have been subject to extraction and displacement. Caycedo, who was born in London and raised across multiple countries before settling between Los Angeles and Colombia, has built a body of work rooted in relationships between human communities and water systems, particularly rivers threatened by hydroelectric damming and environmental exploitation. This piece extends that inquiry into the tactile and the talismanic, borrowing the logic of the fishing net as both tool and connector, something cast outward to gather and to bind. The title's tension between cosmic omen and irreverent intimacy is characteristic of the artist's refusal to separate the political from the sensorial or the ecological from the erotic. Measuring 200 by 80 by 80 centimeters, the work commands physical presence without overpowering a domestic or institutional setting, and its three-dimensional form rewards engagement from multiple vantage points. Signed by the artist and offered through Instituto de Visión, Estrella Negra Guia represents a significant example of Caycedo's material practice at a moment when her international standing continues to grow following major museum exhibitions and biennials. For collectors interested in socially engaged contemporary art that does not sacrifice formal invention for discourse, this work offers both intellectual depth and compelling object-hood.
- Medium
- Hand-dyed artisanal fishing net, lead weights, nickel-plated steel plate
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Instituto de Visión
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