OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford presents two new exhibitions, a major new site-specific installation by Debora Delmar Corp. (Débora Delmar, b. 1986, Mexico City) and Test Run: Performance in Public, a multidisciplinary project of ideas from Modern Art Oxford's wider exhibition programme over the year including live performances, talks, workshops and films.

Upward Mobility includes a group of ceiling-height banners emblazoned with aspirational imagery found on the social media page of a bank in Mexico. These have been fenced in by a series of kitchen countertops and garden hedges harbouring new sculptures made from found objects, which in the past have included product packaging and food wrappers, and have been created by the artist during a month-long residency in Oxford, UK.

Débora Delmar adopted the name Debora Delmar Corp. for the distribution of her work in 2009; not to critique corporate reality, but to reflect on the state of 21st century living. Working with sculpture, video, digital collage and installation, Debora Delmar Corp. adopts and reconfigures the production, branding and merchandising techniques of global corporations.

Debora Delmar Corp.’s work appropriates objects and imagery from mainstream media, to examine the ways in which commodity culture structures our everyday life and routines, perpetuating codified assumptions around class, economics and ethnicity. Her inclusion of Mexican products alongside objects mass-produced in China and pictures of LA celebrities illustrate the cycle of consumption and promotion at work in local and global contexts.

By scaling up and reconfiguring objects of desire, Debora Delmar Corp. highlights the manipulative strategies at work in advertising today. By positing these objects within an immersive environment, the artist suggests that the directive to consume has become increasingly intense, operating today across multiple physical and digital platforms at ever-increasing speed. By using the high finish of branded images, stripped of the commercial context in which they might usually appear, the artist questions and undermines this implicit messaging with which we are bombarded every day.

Modern Art Oxford’s 2015 exhibition programme explores the idea of the ‘commons’ – the physical, digital, conceptual and public spaces that we, as individuals and as part of wider society, relate to each day.

Test Run focuses on artists who use public space specifically for performance. From mid-summer festivals to political protests, the village green to the town square - the public arena has always been a site for artistic expression and radical action. Through a selection of new and historical works, Test Run examines what happens when 'normal behaviour' in public spaces is disrupted and how expectations of public behaviour can be exploited.

Using film and documentary material, discussions and interactive sessions, Test Run explores the making, curating and presenting of performance in public space. Including live performance, talks, workshops and a series of three new commissions, Test Run links the interior space of the gallery to public locations in Oxford’s city centre.