What happens when the one who historically occupied the center is now pushed to the margins?
Excluded is a work that tears through the silence surrounding a new kind of exclusion — one that cannot be named without the risk of being misunderstood or simply canceled.

The central figure — white, male, and heterosexual — appears hollowed out, almost erased, faceless, as if undergoing a symbolic elimination. Surrounding this body — aesthetically and anatomically beautiful — are aggressive scribbles, cartoonish faces, references to the chaos of contemporary art and institutional critique (echoing Duchamp and “Merde d’Artiste”). The nude and exposed body is no longer a symbol of power, but of vulnerability and discomfort.

In a place where many believe there is absolute privilege, the work reveals an imposed silence. The straight white man, now excluded from the dominant discourse, is not portrayed as a victim, but as someone who also bears scars within a system that now denies his relevance.

The words “White”, “Man”, and “Straight” are brutally carved across the body. Below them, almost like a whispered scream: “This is nonsense!”
And in the lower corner: “Excluded.”

This work is not a plea for empathy. It is a visual indictment of the danger in fighting one system of exclusion by creating new ones. It is a critique of an artistic and cultural environment where identity has become currency, and where art must scream to be heard — but still cannot say certain things.