Mario de Vega lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. Through site-specific interventions, process-oriented projects, sculpture and actions, Mario de Vega’s work brings attention to the capacities and shortcomings of human perception.

 

In his artistic practice, Mario de Vega dislocates our perception of reality in order to raise questions and confront human vulnerability. His work produces situations for specific spaces, using the context to explore the value of fragility and indetermination, assuming the impossibility of control for both the actions and the results of his interventions. De Vega allows space for exploration and reflection on the unknown, the uncanny, the unseen, the unheard, and thus the unpredictable.

 

His musical practice explores the value of instability involves a wide range of self-designed electronic devices, electro-mechanical systems and computer based interfaces. He performs both independelty and in collaboration with a variety of musicians.

 

His work has appeared in different contexts throughout Europe, Mexico, North America, South America, Russia, India, South Africa, Korea and Japan.