Hxoro originates from a discovery that unexpectedly shaped my artistic trajectory: a worn copy of Psychology by Peter Green (first edition, 1999, p. 445), which I found abandoned on a roadside in Bushwick (Brooklyn) during a rainy day in the 2020 lockdowns. In it, I read about the moment — just after their first year of life — when children begin to offer objects to others as a way of testing reactions, initiating contact, and creating a shared language even with strangers.

That small anthropological detail became the conceptual seed of my practice. Hxoro embodies that same impulse: a desire to move the emotional undercurrents that people carry but rarely articulate. My installations and visual works function as an invitation, a clandestine political gesture that seek to awaken dormant states of curiosity and vulnerability. In each piece, I attempt to revive that early, instinctive act of reaching out, proposing a moment of connection.

It’s called Relational Public Art and it generates attention from the local communities.