Ernesto Oroza, designer
His practice channels the tradition of radical architecture into an analytical use of contemporary object typologies and forces of production.
Designer, artist, researcher, graduate of the Higher Institute of Design of the University of Havana, professor at the Higher School of Art and Design of Saint-Étienne, editorial director ofAzimuths, Ernesto Oroza was interested in the architectures of necessity, technological disobedience and other subjects that link design and society in times of economic and political crisis.
Instead of working in the field of manufacturing, he produces and disseminates speculative models and his research through different means: exhibitions, publications, collaborative practices, documentaries, unorthodox forays into more classical modes of architecture, design interior and object. His work has been presented at Documenta Fifteen, Kassel; at The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; at MoMA, New York; at the Groninger Museum, Netherlands; at the Perez Art Miami Museum, USA; at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain; at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; at the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; and at the Institut de Cultura La Virreina, Barcelona.
This event is part of the “Political Questions and Contemporary Creation” conference cycle.