Lucy + Jorge Orta transform prosaic objects to create broad dialogues between numerous disciplines — art, performance, architecture, fashion, and design — on social and environmental issues. At former industrial space Hangar Bicocca, the Ortas present a cycle of installations, video works, photographs, and documentation from their latest project, an expedition to Antarctica. The Antarctic Village — No Borders , an installation of 50 tents made with flags, clothes, and gloves, invades the exhibition space together with the artists' "drop parachutes," which function as survival kits. In M.I.U. (Mobile Intervention Unit) , an ambulance is used as an office where visitors can get their "Antarctic World Passport." The show's new works coexist with older ones, in which the duo repurposes equipment to provide essential services, as with Orta Water , a water-recycling apparatus mounted around a canoe.

-Chiara Agnello