Patricio Morocho’s Demolition Relics at Crisis, Lima

Key facts

• Patricio Morocho is a US-Ecuadorian artist living in the Bronx.
• His family arrived in New York from Azuay, Ecuador in the 1990s.
• Morocho has worked in the demolition business in Manhattan.
• The exhibition 'Ukupi' is at Crisis gallery in Lima.
• The show runs from 22 April to 27 June.
• The work '1194 Randall Avenue' (2025) is a series of four casts from a concrete fragment.
• The fragment came from a building bought and destroyed by the son of a notorious property owner.
• The casts are made of paper pulp and plaster, covered in recycled canvas, painted with oil.
• Paintings feature the artist's mother eating figs.
• The works are compared to Pompeian frescoes.