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The exhibition CRIME AS ORNAMENT is part of this year's gallery festival CURATED BY which runs under the theme Untold Narratives. It is curated by María Inés Plaza Lazo and features a wide variety of different artistic approaches and media, all of them addressing issues of cultural diversity and suppressed recognition.

The title of the exhibition refers to the essay "Ornament and Crime" by the Austrian architect and publicist Adolf Loos from 1908, which is considered a key impulse for the dawn of modernism. In this essay, Loos establishes his vision of reduced, unadorned form. …