Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director, MASP, Rodrigo Moura, artistic director, MALBA, Yudi Rafael, assistant curator, MASP, and Isabela Ferreira Loures, curatorial assistant, MASP.

The exhibition showcases over three decades of work by Damián Ortega (Mexico City, Mexico, 1967), a leading artist of his generation. Working with photography, video, sculpture, and installation, Ortega invites viewers to reconsider everyday materials and objects to explore social, economic, and political narratives. In his iconic sculptural practice, Ortega dismantles objects such as cars and reorganizes their parts, displaying them in new configurations. This idea of rearrangement also appears in works where he arranges tools, stones, or bricks in suspended assemblies. The reorganization of these objects in the form of spatial diagrams is often humorous and contains political and social commentary. The exhibition highlights important works from Ortega’s career, including a series investigating aspects of Brazilian architecture. Organized in partnership with the Museo de Arte Latinoamericana de Buenos Aires.