Juan Roberto Diago's "The Chosen One (El Elegido)" interrogates the fractured ontology of Afro-Cuban identity through a bifurcated anthropomorphic silhouette, bisected by a raw, cloth scar that evokes ritual scarification or the divisive lashings of historical trauma, where the left hemisphere's obsidian void confronts the right's pallid luminescence, symbolizing the dialectical tension between erasure and visibility in post-colonial narratives of selection and subjugation. Flanked by illegible scriptural margins—reminiscent of palimpsestic archives or suppressed oral histories—and adorned with a turquoise base punctuated by pearlescent beads, the mixed-media assemblage transmutes personal election into a communal allegory, probing the alchemical burden of being "chosen" amid legacies of enslavement and spiritual resilience, where the crimson ground pulses with sacrificial undertones. This conceptual rupture extends to motifs of hybrid sovereignty, positing the figure as a sentinel of reclaimed agency, challenging the viewer to navigate the interstices of predestination and resistance in a landscape scarred by racial dichotomies.