‘holy Teeth’

Angelique De Castro, Peloloca

Exhibition Days: June 20th — July 5th

Opening reception: Friday June 20th  5-8pm

This two-person exhibition brings together Angelique De Castro and Peloloca, whose ceramic practices draw from radical history and speculative mythology. Through sculpture and installation, the artists create a rooted site of resistance animated by untold stories that challenge the so-called laws of God and State.

Peloloca sculpts historical and mythological femmes who wield rage and violence as reparative forces. Their figures offer a counter-iconography: a subversion of power through the languages of idolatry and deification. In dialogue, Angelique De Castro combines indigenous Philippine symbols, woven embroidery, and ceramics in figurative sculptures that embody humor and queerness. Reimagining their ancestral mythologies through a disobedient and diasporic lens, they interpret Philippine folklore beyond a reductive Western gaze.

Together, these sculpted worlds reject imposed moral orders in favor of an active and expansive defiance. Like teeth that are shaped by inherited gaps and snaggles, they refuse “correction”. Holy Teeth is a prayer that gnaws at the central tenets of the ruling class: fear, obedience, and erasure. Through rage and humor, it reframes sacred myth and resurrects generational memory, offering pointers to what we’re really made of beneath that which seeks to govern us.

Angelique De Castro is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Engaging in fiber art, figurative sculpture, 3d animation, and new media, their practice interrogates the use of contemporary and ancestral mythologies through a queer diasporic lens to critique soft power and corporate imperialism. Their work builds a language inspired by Philippine symbols, labor politics, and pop culture into digital and physical forms, layering multiple modes of production as an homage to their artistic ancestry and counterculture media.

They have exhibited domestically and internationally with Ankhlave, BEVERLY’S, WhiteBox, SaveArtSpace, Galerie Shibumi, Artshack Lab, and the Asian American Art Alliance. Their work has been curated by The Here and There Collective, Yarrow Slaps, Darlene Deloris, and Naomi Basu. They were an artist-in-residence at the Asian American Art Alliance (2020), Ankhlave Art Alliance (2025), Glen Arbor Arts Center (2026), and Alterwork Studios (2026). Her work has been mentioned in The New York Times, Logic(s), INES_Magazina, and featured in Google Arts and Culture.

Born in Ireland, raised in India, and based between New York and Mexico, Peloloca is a sculptor whose practice is shaped by transcontinental movement and interdisciplinary training. They employ hybrid wheel-thrown and hand-built processes to create abstract-figurative forms that explore unexpected continuities across cultures, transcending fixed identity and place. Their work is rooted in de-colonial, anti-imperial, queer-feminist politics, drawing on a wide range of insurgent histories and speculative mythologies spanning South Asia, Palestine, Mexico, and the Black diaspora. 

Peloloca was most recently a participating artist at the Drop Everything biennale on Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, Ireland; an artist-in-residence at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine, and a recipient of the Angus Graham Fellowship Award. Their work has been exhibited at Bau Gallery (Beacon, NY), Powerhouse Arts (NYC), BEVERLY’S (NYC), Hind’s Hall Collective (Columbia University NYC), Center for Contemporary Art (New Jersey), and the Fallow Frames Biennial (NYC). They hold an MFA from Parsons School of Design (NYC) and a BFA from Stella Maris College (Chennai, India).