Rafael Cunha da Silva has a background in drawing and comics that gradually evolved toward pictorial and sculptural forms. Through painting, sculpture, and installation, he constructs hybrid worlds where industrial materials, folkloric figures, and work environments intersect. These spaces are inhabited by exhausted heroes, absurd champions, hybrid creatures and fragmented bodies. Drawing on his own experience as a laborer, he stages confrontations between workers and systems of control. Pallets, cleaning carts and wrestling rings become theatrical markers of endurance, obsolescence and absurdity. His creatures, grotesque, marginal and sometimes resistant, haunt these real or fictional settings, emerging as tragic figures pushed to the edge. Caught between function and fantasy, these worker avatars are molded, or worn down, by repetitive gestures, invisible labor, and the roles imposed on them.