Fig. 3
Mauricio López F.
2025
Photograph, printed flag, flagpole, wood, acrylic, and toggle switch
59.06 × 43.31 × 1.97 in.
Wind Reenactment
work by Mauricio López F.
June 7 – 29, 2025
on view Sundays
11 a – 2 p
Opening Reception
Saturday, June 7th
4 – 7 p
Join us in celebration of the opening of Mauricio López F.’s exhibition, Wind Reenactment.
In collaboration with Comfort Music –
Thursday, June 19th
6 – 9 p
Reencarnación del viento
Performance featuring two collectives, in response to the work on view
Polvos Rojos
Gabriela Estrada Loochkartt and Pablo Lazala Ruiz
Ppppaaarrrkkkk 公 園 pppaaarrrquuuE
Sage (Shu Tzu) Lin and Alejandra Ramos
Possession is an impulse that quickly settles into control. Inevitably, what is not understood is captured, examined, and when it presents some exploitable quality, it becomes a tool, a possibility. Wind is a strongly romanticized element, allowing heroism to be injected into moments that might otherwise seem tasteless. At the same time, its manifestation has a revealing quality. It dusts off what is latent and shows us that our environment is not pristine—that there is the precarious, the hidden, the forgettable, the unfixed. This duality forces its will upon us; we cannot stop it—it is there whether for our convenience or not. We can try to simulate it in forced controlled conditions, but it is well known that that’s not wind.
The exhibition consists of three exemplary objects—Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and Fig 3. Each one aims to recreate, with different processes and materiality, the tensions between misinformation and the drive to capture.
Fig. 2
Mauricio López F.
2025
Case, loudspeaker, audio recording, acrylic, cement, miniature flag, and toggle switch
13.78 × 24.41 × 16.14 in.
Mauricio López F. is an artist from Santiago de Chile based in Chicago, USA. He studied Musical Composition at the Escuela Moderna de Música. He later participated in the Copiú: Improvement Course in Composition and Interpretation of Contemporary Music and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, focusing on avant-garde movements in the Chilean sound scene.
Recently, he completed his MFA in Sound at SAIC, where he received a complete scholarship. He is currently exploring various mediums, including sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and drawing. His works, which address themes such as translation, labor, and cultural friction—often with a sardonic lens—have been presented across South and North America and Europe, recently highlighting the 30th anniversary of the SAIC Site Gallery and Expo Chicago.