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"The artist, however faithful to [their] personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
“My work seeks to monumentalize the detritus of consumerism and the industry that enables it. Fascism, the decaying half-life of capitalism, is dissected in the context of the megalithic remnants of ancient societies that too believed themselves immortal in the face of imminent apocalypse. Microplastics deposit in the soil, forming spoons in our brains and marking ours as a plastocene era for millennia to come. Lifeforms escape from the grinding seams of a system that fails to categorize and digest them. The ghosts of coywolves play amongst the rusting husks of automobiles, their bones long since picked clean and fashioned into tools and warding charms. I propose a post-anthropocene ecosystem of metal, bone, clay and oil, given life through light and sound.”
Galel Collins Estrada grew up between Tegucigalpa, Honduras and the USA. Their parallel experience of childhood in a banana republic under the boot of the American empire and life at the very heart of the war machine becomes interrelated. Their experience at vocational school specializing in computer-assisted design has informed their study as a BFA candidate earning their degree in the 3D arts and interrelated media departments, simultaneously working in the field of audiovisual production. Galel has shown work abroad and at home, worked in the Boston underground music scene, and behind the scenes of production for Harvard Medical School’s conferences. After having been involved in the inception of guerilla art-market Carcass, they led the organization of performance at the event’s most official incarnation: Carcass Carnival at the Armory in 2024. Today, Galel is focusing on the curation and installation of exhibitions in Massart’s black boxes, both independently and as a lead gallery producer for the upcoming SIM BIG show.