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Leopoldo Goût
Stag Hurricane
Editions:Edition of 25
Dimensions:12 x 8 x 4 in. (30.5 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm)
Regular price $2,400.00 USDRegular priceUnit price per
The Project
Leopoldo Goût’s Stag Hurricane, shaped entirely from memory, transcends traditional representation. The deer emerges as a symbolic glyph—inscribed with his personal mythology and ancestral memory. In his studio, materials speak through tension and vibration: bronze crackles with atomic recollection and textures whisper songs passed down through bloodlines. Goût’s practice functions as an archaeology of sensation, excavating layered strata of memory, myth, and lived experience.
A singular encounter—locking eyes with a wild deer—marked a profound turning point in Goût’s life. Through the recurring imagery of stags—as well as other migratory symbols like whales and butterflies—Goût explores the act of crossing. As an immigrant, he constructs not from division, but from movement; from the reimagining of thresholds. In a time of militarized borders and proliferating walls, his sculptures offer quiet defiance. They insist that memory migrates, that myth is mobile, and that belonging is not fixed, but forged across time.
The deer he sculpts inhabit a liminal space: innocence fused with wildness, memory tangled with dream, lineage braided with invention. This exclusive Dropshop release precedes Leopoldo Goût’s upcoming solo presentation at the 2025 Armory Show in New York with Povos Gallery.
Stag Hurricane
Edition of 25
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 12 x 8 x 4 in.
Price: $2,400
©Leopoldo Goût
“I want to emulate and echo that fleeting moment when you wake from an intensely vivid dream, but immediately those images and senses start to dissipate. I believe my work lives in that ephemeral space.”
— Leopoldo Goût
The Artist
Leopoldo Goût (b. 1972, Mexico) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker who works across mediums to capture the ephemeral: an abstract and figurative clash with memory and humanity, with chaos. Born in Mexico City, Goût grew up among poets, musicians, explorers, activists, filmmakers, scientists, and visual artists, whose stories and ideas inspired him.
He studied in London at the renowned Central Saint Martins School of Art and it was there that he began to approach his work as a kaleidoscope of references that inhabit and obscure easy origins and meaning. Goût’s perspective is a confluence of the modern and ancient, order and disorder, and speaks to a wide audience. All his projects, including films and novels, influence each other in unexpected ways.
He has written and produced films, documentaries, and television shows for more than a decade. Goût’s documentary film Carlos debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and was theatrically distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. He wrote and produced The Chosen One (El Elegido) with his brother Everardo, a television show that debuted on Netflix in 2023 on the top 10 list in more than 70 countries. An accomplished novelist, Goût’s book Piñata won the Top 10 Horror Novels of 2023.
He lives with his family in NYC and has studios in NYC, Mexico City, and Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. His work has appeared in galleries and museums throughout the world, including MoMA PS1, Galeria Museo of Bogotá, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, and the West Collection of Pennsylvania.
©Leopoldo Goût
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