Damián Ortega
Aterrizaje en la luna [Voyage to the Moon], 1994
Damián Ortega (1967)
Aterrizaje en la luna [Voyage to the Moon], 1994
Mixed media installation
67.3 x 94 x 259 cm
Damián Ortega’s practice explores the tension that inhabit objects, and how they might relate to each other. His sculptures, installations, performances, videos and photographs, are experiments in which ordinary things converge in unexpected situations. Voyage to the Moon takes its name from one of the Adventures of Tin Tin. The French comic itself is found within the temporary shelter. Equipped with a mattress and a sleeping bag, this kind of capsule could serve equally for the moon as for the hostile streets of a city. With this galvanized metal shelter the artist invites us to imagine a space camp like the one that children dream of exploring, but also hints at the adverse conditions, both social and climatic, that many homeless people encounter, linking imaginative escapes with those of exclusion.