
1989, between Mexico City and San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Ulrik López’s work takes objects and motifs addressed by fields that study human activity through material and cultural production, mainly archeology and anthropology from the Americas, to approach different notions pertaining world views, the ritual, myths, craft and the objects and characters that populate them. These approximations are mostly assumed in a very amateurish way, as a researcher, an archeologist or a forensics, who in some sense makes witnesses out of objects (things, images, places, sounds). A great part of his practice entails arranging various sorts of fragments, whether they are physical or immaterial, concepts or intuitions, eternal or ephemeral, sculpture or drawing, architecture or dance, to examine themes around traditions and revised forms of folklore, opposing, in some ways, traumas from colonialism. Ulrik López holds a Bachelor's degree (BFA) in Sculpture, a minor degree in Industrial Design in 2013 by the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico and he is currently part of the master program (MFA) at Bard College. @ulrik_s https://ulriklopez.com/