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The Hollow Men (the loop)

Polo Farrera (Leopoldo Alejandro Farrera Cuevas)
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The Hollow Men (the loop)

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The Hollow Men is a  moving-image work exploring necropolitics, institutional violence, surveillance, and disappearance. Drawing from T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men, the work examines how violence is documented, classified, and transformed into evidence. Ten masked figures occupy a space staged as a forensic crime scene, performing repetitive investigative procedures using evidence markers, forensic tools, photographs, uniforms, and flashes. The absence of a body becomes the central presence, questioning whose disappearance is acknowledged and whose remains invisible. The work reflects on how institutional systems can transform violence into procedures, records, and image.

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Adrianna Capuanno 1st AC

Jian Yae 2nd AC 

Audio credits: Carolina Diaz 

Edition: Sergio Bauer

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Polo Farrera (Leopoldo Alejandro Farrera Cuevas)

Polo Farrera (b.1997, Mexico) is a visual artist based in London working across photography, constructed imagery, and moving image. His practice explores memory, biopolitics, and the aesthetics of absence through philosophical and psychoanalytic frameworks.

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