Damián Ortega (Mexico City, 1967), a Mexican artist within the international art community, is known for his works that explore the relationships between everyday objects, cultural systems, and invisible forces such as gravity and time.
In 2002, he/she participated in the VII edition of Art to Art with the work 120 days, installed in the Enopolio of Poggibonsi.
The work, with its tension between artistic design and collective improvisation, reflects Ortega's interest in the transformation of materials and the dialogue between productive and creative processes, emphasising the poetic potential of common objects.
Damián Ortega (Mexico City, 1967) is a Mexican artist. Known for his installations, photographs and film work, Ortega has lived between Berlin and Mexico since 2006 and today exhibits his installations internationally. Influenced by the intensely politicised work of muralists from the 1920s, he began working as a satirical cartoonist for various Mexican magazines and newspapers. At the same time, he started with his first artistic works creating sculptures, installations and videos. All of Ortega’s works and actions are inspired by a wide range of everyday objects, from axes to bricks or buckets to tortillas, which have all undergone what has been described as the characteristic ’mischievous process of transformation and dysfunction“.