Gabriel Orozco

Asterisms

For his exhibition as part of Deutsche Guggenheim’s commission program, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco will create related sculptural and photographic installations from detritus he has gathered at two sites – a playing field in New York where he has collected discarded evidence of activities held there, and a protected coastal biosphere and wildlife reserve in Mexico that is also the repository for flows of industrial and commercial waste from the Pacific Ocean. The exhibition will invoke several of the artist’s recurring motifs, including the traces of erosion, poetic encounters with mundane materials, and the ever present tension between nature and culture. It will also underscore and amplify Orozco’s subtle practice of subjecting each of his projects to personal, idiosyncratic systems.