Reconstructions #05
Luis Urculo Spanish
Not on view
Úrculo is a Spanish-born artist residing in Mexico City whose works encompass sculpture, drawing, photography, and video. For his series of diptychs entitled Reconstructions, the artist wed photographic images made in the studio with small drawings that are "keys" to the visual component. Referencing the on-site diagramming that takes place at crime scenes and archaeological digs, Urculo creates scenes composed of arrangements of fragments that trigger the viewer’s desire to fill in the blanks. The drawings, which serve as strange and poetic captions, send us back to the object, but we are less, rather than more, certain of what we are seeing. In this example, piles of studio detritus are arranged neatly around the studio, connected by string and numbered cards. The accompanying drawing is a scrawled, overwritten list of place names—archaeological sites in Southern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, some of which have survived while others now exist only in historical records.
