Darío Escobar (b. 1971, Guatemala) engages in a formal and conceptual investigation of commonplace objects, recontextualizing them within the histories of art and visual culture. Since the early 1990s, he has employed ready-mades – from McDonald’s cups to vulcanized tires and sports equipment – to examine our entanglement with mass culture, identity-based consumption, and the blurred lines between high and low culture. His work prompts viewers to reflect on the social, political, and economic systems that shape everyday life.

In "Eclipse," Escobar constructs a sculptural constellation from found basketball hoops, installed intact but reoriented into the corner of a room. This spatial realignment transforms familiar athletic objects into a diagram of celestial geometry – evoking alignments, rituals, and choreographed motion. Echoing earlier works made from soccer balls, bicycle tires, and baseball bats, "Eclipse" reconfigures tools of leisure into forms that retain the wear of use: dents, scratches, and industrial finishes become traces of memory and circulation. The piece reflects on repetition and ritual while positioning sport as a contemporary echo of colonial structures – inviting viewers to consider how form, function, and cultural narratives are embedded in even the most familiar materials.