The Difficulty of Representation, Chicago, 2026. © Luis Urculo.
During this event, Luis Urculo will talk about the background and development of the installation The Difficulty of Representation on display at ART on THE MART between April 9 and May 17, 2026. Urculo will also share an overview of his work.
Based in Madrid and Mexico City, Luis Urculo’s 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, and ambiguities.
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.
Urculo’s 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. They 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.
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, values that have been main units to measure construction and their media impact during the last decades.
