José Dávila (Guadalajara, 1974) has developed various bodies of work since the late 1990s. He uses mediums such as installation, photographic intervention, drawing, and, in particular, three-dimensional objects. Trained in the field of architecture, Dávila has explored the ways in which the artistic object establishes explicit relationships with the history of art, the exhibition space, and everyday materiality. These explorations become decisive for the plastic qualities of his work, revealing a close link between the objects, in all their material and semantic complexity, and a context that is simultaneously architectural, historical, and social.

In Housing Complex, 180 ceramic pieces are positioned precisely, alluding to repetition and the mass production of contemporary cities. The work offers a direct reference to the idea of the single-family house, designed to maximize space efficiently, but which, in turn, ignores the conditions of a dignified home. Through symbolic fractures, Dávila reveals how the current context – in this case, that of social housing in Mexico – is in constant dialogue with modernist impulses and traditions.