“Luiz Roque’s videos are transmissions from an alien planet. Or, if you prefer, they are televised signals from alternate timelines, other possible worlds, or the reveries of the undercommons. With the right technology, we can catch a glimpse of these visions. The sculptural edifices that sometimes tend to house Roque’s works resemble monoliths designed to tune into these frequencies; they strike us as artifacts left behind from another civilization, one much like our own yet uncannily dissimilar. Here, Roque’s video installations comprise a series of portals – to different universes, to zones of temporal strangeness and encounter, to transformed perceptual maps of the world.(...)

In this light, Roque’s sculptures rhyme with his films.: Both practices mold ideas or concepts into visual propositions; both invite us to consider the manifold and delightfully strange forms that subjectivities might take. Named after familiar objects and entities yet Martian in their geometry, these works paraphrase organic life; consider them abbreviations of human energies. Toilet (2024) resembles its namesake – and perhaps slyly summons Duchamp while discarding the reference in the same gesture – yet its multiple, drain-like holes could equally be a set of eyes. Meanwhile, on other works, ceramic glaze may start to remind us of makeup on a contoured face.” (Excerpt from exhibition text, Holes, Mendes Wood DM NY, 2025)

This work was previously featured in the exhibitions:
(SOLO SHOW) Holes, Mendes Wood DM, New York, USA