CHARLIE FOXTROT is a haunting fusion of chaos and elegance, drawing its title from the military slang for catastrophic failure (“Charlie Foxtrot”) while alluding to Charles Taylor, the Liberian warlord whose name became synonymous with violence during the Liberian Civil War. In TAKI’s world, war becomes a dance—the Foxtrot, once a symbol of ballroom grace, is transformed into a choreography of survival, where the music is gunfire and the movement is instinct. The central figure, rendered in fragmented, cubist form and bathed in soft pastels, evokes both sensuality and trauma, contorted like a dancer caught between beauty and brutality. Surrounded by a black void that represents the emotional vacuum of conflict and encased in an ornate gold frame—a satirical nod to how society romanticizes violence—the piece embodies the grotesque ballet of war. With CHARLIE FOXTROT, TAKI reclaims the language of destruction and transforms it into a raw, poetic survival manual where even chaos has choreography, and every step is a choice to live.