With the exception of an exhibition of some 100 works at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin in 2007 — 08, most of the collection has never been exhibited
in a museum setting prior to its presentation at the DMA.
For more than a decade Osorio has been presenting work
in unconventional places
prior to showing it
in a
museum setting, thus exploring the subjectivity of meaning
in art and the nuance that these installations achieve depending on their location.