Richard Goncalves

Akarocs is a multidisciplinary art practice working with industrial surfaces, automotive materials, and sculptural intervention.

 

Working with both newly fabricated and reconfigured industrial components, the practice explores authorship, decay, and engineered form—where function has been interrupted but not erased. Automotive-derived forms and structural elements are fractured, aged, reassembled, and indexed, transforming manufactured materials into sites of record rather than repair.

 

The work resists restoration and nostalgia, focusing instead on surface memory, mechanical logic, and the aesthetics of use. Akarocs operates between sculpture and artifact, treating industrial material as both medium and evidence