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Balmaceda presents A Letter About Codices, with an installation by Luis Urculo for Milano Design Week 2026

— 06 April 2026

Courtesy of Balmaceda

After its debut at last year’s Milan Design Week, Balmaceda returns to Milan with Códices, presented through a site-specific installation by Luis Urculo in a private San Vittore apartment

Set within a private apartment in San Vittore, the exhibition unfolds as an intimate, layered journey through the imagined home of an unseen archaeologist, a collector, and his shadow. Rugs from the Códices collection inhabit the space alongside a landscape of objects and artifacts, constructing a portrait through absence, where identity emerges from material traces and accumulated interests. The domestic setting becomes a narrative device, blurring fiction and reality as visitors move through three rooms that reveal selected pieces alongside insights into their creative process and conceptual origins. Each space reflects a dialogue between memory and interpretation, where ancestral references are translated into contemporary forms. Past and present converge to shape a house of ideas, transforming the apartment into a living archive that invites reflection on how cultural memory is preserved, reimagined, and inhabited.

Instagram: @balmaceda_studio
Web: jmbalmaceda.com
Location: VIA PAOLO GIOVIO 9, CIT. 3, PRIMO PIANO, MILANO.

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