Jorge Morocho (Ecuador/Switzerland) employs subtle displacements, repetition, and irony to allow images to reveal their own contradictions between intention and form. Jorge’s practice is permeated by a constant drive to explore the internal mechanisms that build contemporary spectatorship. He often works with commercial or domestic images, approaching them as raw material that encodes desires tied to normative futures and mechanisms of control.
This residency at Delfina Foundation will give Jorge the time and space to focus on research around contemporary formats of hospitality and domestic spatial configurations, exploring the notion of the template as an architecture of desire. In the context of London’s urban environment, Jorge is interested in how comfort and authenticity are manufactured through design and circulation, and how these spaces reveal larger structures of class, coloniality, and pleasure.
His recent exhibitions include Plattform 25 at CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel (2025); Jealousy at Museo Nahim Isaías (2025); and Regionale 25 at Kunsthaus Baselland (2024). In Ecuador, he presented DOG Backwards Is GOD at MAAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (2021) and has an upcoming curated exhibition, MOREL at MAAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in 2026. Jorge’s work and writing have featured in publications such as 1980–2020 Arte Contemporáneo en Ecuador (2025), edited by Pilar Estrada Lecaro; independent Berlin/Basel based magazine, Disput (2025); and Wonder Boy Complex (2021), published by EACHEVE. Jorge completed an MFA in Fine Arts from Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Basel, in 2024, and also holds BFAs in Visual Arts from Universidad de las Artes (UArtes) and Instituto Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Jorge was born in Ecuador and is currently based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
With support from:
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