Hugo McCloud

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Hugo McCloud constructs installations from industrial waste and discarded materials, bitumen, oxidized steel, and plastic bags, which he layers with pigment and woodblock printing techniques. His work addresses labor economics, geopolitics, and environmental degradation through visual metaphors of material reclamation and decay. Drawing from documentary photographs of people in developing countries, McCloud positions his industrial assemblages as speculative visions of carbon footprint reversal and resource recovery. Based in Palo Alto, he treats urban detritus as a medium for both formal investigation and social critique.

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