The bicultural, bilingual, binational Mexico City-born artist Ruben Ortiz-Torres opened a dual show with Marcos Lopez at the Centro del Imagen last week. Ortiz-Torres, who teaches art at UC San Diego, presents his series of photographs of pyramids in otherwordly, dislocated contexts: a pyramid-shaped water-slide at a resort in the Bahamas, a pyramid-shaped furniture store in San Diego, a gym at Cal State Long Beach, as seen above.
Check out the rest of his photographs. It's an impressive body of work that combines documentary, commentary, and beautiful weirdness. * Previously, "For the gods, 'all is play': Paz on the pyramid."