Hueso

The first thing to impose its presence is the paradox of geological time forced to behave like an industrial mechanism. The raw material of this piece, a dense sedimentary stone saturated with marine fossil remains, abandons mineral stillness to configure itself through mechanical flanges, connecting joints, and conical bolts. Across its rough crust emerge fossilized shells tinged with earthy, ochre oxidations, contrasting immediately with the dressed planes in neutral grey where the sculptural hand has imposed a cylindrical, regular, and utilitarian geometry.

This coexistence between the archaic organic and the manufactured generates a rigorous field of tensions. The dark iron cones, fastened like rivets or defensive spikes around the central axis, introduce an aggressive and threatening rhythm into a body that already exhibits calculated structural fissures. Furthermore, the decision to suspend such a block with taut metal chains adds a palpable gravitational charge: the viewer feels the brutal weight suspended in mid-air, held aloft by gleaming links connecting the sculpture to its immediate environment. Natural light accentuates this material clash by highlighting the chalky roughness of the fossil against the cold sheen of polished metal.

Under the title Hueso, the intervention becomes a meditation on the anatomy of the inert. The articulation does not belong to any known vertebrate, but rather to a hybrid archaeology where petrified biological residue turns into a tectonic prosthesis. Alexander Chaves constructs a structural knot suggesting both orthopedic repair and the skeletal framework of fossil machinery, a device in which millenary ossification and contemporary hardware mutually require one another to remain suspended in poise.