© Courtesy of the artist

Hanging on strings from ceilings at the Botín Centre facing the Bay of Santander, up to 26 February, are nine of Damián Ortega’s most emblematic mobiles: sculptures suspended in mid-air in which the artist from Mexico City deconstructs everyday objects in an endeavor to reflect on the economic and social discourses that make them, and in humorous, ironic remembrance of the old maxim that states that all that is solid melts into air.[+]