This week marks the last for “Pico y elote,” the Damián Ortega survey at the Museo Del Palacio De Bellas Artes. The exhibition features eighty works produced from the 1990s to the present, showcasing Ortega’s political wit across several decades and mediums that include installations, sculptures, photographs, films and textiles. We caught up with Ortega to hear him reflect on this important show in the heart of Mexico City.

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The show has been very well received, thousands of visitors have come to see the exhibition and the audience is very different and plural than that which comes to art galleries. There are for sure many tourists, both national and international but also many people from different social backgrounds. I enjoy being able to see and listen to this great array of audiences, to witness them having fun and being interested in different pieces

For me, it’s a privilege to be in Bellas Artes and to be part of Mexican art history, part of the city and part of the country. This is, to share the work in such a powerful context during this specific moment. Moreover, it is important to know that I have never shown my work in Mexico in the 25 or........

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