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WHEELS

Wheels is about the circular form through which movement becomes effort, resistance, and return. Cycling appears here as the queen of all sports because it remains exposed to the road, to weather, to distance, and to the mingled sweat of bodies pressed into the same ordeal. It is popular in the deepest sense: visible from the roadside, available without a ticket, offered to anyone willing to wait, cheer, suffer, or recognise in the rider’s exhaustion a more general grammar of human persistence. The wheel becomes a figure of recurrence. It carries effort forward while returning endlessly to itself, joining rhythm and constraint, acceleration and fatigue, spectacle and disappearance. The body, almost reduced to function, resists by continuing. What remains after the race has passed is the residue of shared exertion on places briefly transformed by collective attention.