Patricio Morocho (b. 1998, Cuenca, Ecuador) is a sculptor and painter working in the Bronx, whose practice centers on the recovery and re-mythologization of urban detritus. Taking rubble from demolition sites, he produces molds of building fragments — former clinics, offices, and homes — that he then paints against, invoking the tension between wetness and dryness that mirrors the feminine and masculine principles of Kichwa cosmology. Drawing on mythology and scripture from his ancestry and beyond, Morocho investigates the connective tissue between ancient worldviews and contemporary socio-ecological contradiction, seeking convergences of the profane and sacred across the landscapes of migration and struggle. Muruchu received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from Rutgers University, and has had solo exhibitions at Micki Meng Gallery, San Francisco, and The Latinx Project, New York.