Chavis Marmol

You gained a lot of visibility in early 2024 for crushing a Tesla car with a nine-ton replica of an Olmec head. Can you talk about the symbolism behind this destructive work of art/performance art? What did the Tesla represent to you?

The message is highly illustrative: a head, a replica of a pre-Hispanic piece belonging to the oldest known culture in the Americas, combined with the physiological features of the represented face, somewhere between Indigenous and African… all that historical weight crashing down on one of the most emblematic products of post-industrial capitalism.