(b.Mexico City, Mexico, 1967).
Damian Ortega desires to alter the syntax of everyday objects and their signification. He utilizes items such as golf balls, tortillas, bricks or pick-axes and then deconstructs the mechanisms by which they are interpreted. He alters them, creating hybrid forms, in order to reveal various symbolic components. He redefines the way a viewer interprets the world. The artist and his art question objects repeatedly in order to undermine fixed notions about them. In his installation piece Power Rangers, 2001, Ortega transformed a Mexican monument into a giant Power Ranger. He previously placed a commemorative monument on wheels (Obelisco con Rueditas, 1996), and created a model for modern sculpture (Vision Simultanea, 1991-1999) by lining up supermarket trolleys according to the dynamics of movement. His work includes an abstract sculpture made out of tortillas and Latrina America, which consists of a toilet with the seat in the shape of South Amer
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