“Manglano-Ovalle’s intimate interaction with Mies’s landmark buildings over the past several years has produced a seductive and provocative body of video works that conduct an ongoing discourse about the ideals, failures and contradictions of Modernism and an exquisite tension between homage and critique. As subjects in Manglano-Ovalle’s ongoing political observations and social criticisms, Mies’s iconic spaces become invested with evocative new meanings, revealing themselves to be the universal and socially engaged sites Mies always hoped they could be.”
— Irene Hofmann