Guadalajara, 1973. Francisco Ugarte is a Mexican artist and architect. His multidisciplinary, abstract and minimalist work can be understood as a series of material and architectural explorations generated at the crossroads between experience and perception. Through the use of different media such as site-specific interventions, sculpture, drawing, video, painting and installation, his gestures subtly lead to a deep attention to the environment and draw attention to the materiality of the elements he uses. Presence, perception, action, intuition, light, time, change, place, the material and the universal are recurrent themes in his work.

Ugarte did an intervention on the hotel's walls, tracing architectural details with charcoal. He picks out, outlines, emphasizes or interacts with existing architectural elements—corners, edges, structural lines, planes of walls, transitions of materials, thresholds, windows, etc.—and uses them as material, frame, or locus for the intervention. They shift how people perceive architecture; by drawing attention to what typically is overlooked (corners, edges, light/shadow interplay), his interventions make viewers more aware of space, shape, and the built environment. They test the boundaries between art and architecture: his works are not just placed in architecture—they are in dialogue with it, co-opting the architectural elements themselves.