Luis Úrculo
Lives and works between Madrid and Mexico City
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His practice takes anthropology, archeology and criminology as a main references of phenomenology to create lines of investigation based on reconstructions, timelines, interpretations, uncertain materialities, imprecise descriptions, or ambiguities.
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Fiction, and representation of diverse domestic geographies have been the language and scenarios used to create diverse video works, using amateur choreographies with objects to represent this ideas.
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His latest investigations are based on the idea of ‘karaoke’,
(or working with absence of information), to create new bodies of work within those missing parts, images or explanations. Perform a line of complicity with the viewer, who builds interpretations or reconstructions out of this pieces, as tourists, archeologist, or simple karaoke singers in a bar.
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Urculo is also interested on a redefinition of the possible tools, procedures and formats within architecture. Mainly is an investigation focused on the representation and the narrative of the ‘invisible’ that defines the space. A work not so directly related with the gravity and weight, a value which has been a main unit to measure construction and its media impact on the last decades.