Wu Tsang
Installation view, Wu Tsang, On our way to the general strike (2026), in If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027); photo: Zachary Riggleman / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
Installation view, Wu Tsang, On our way to the general strike (2026), in If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027); photo: Zachary Riggleman / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi is pleased to present Wu Tsang’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, bringing together two moving-image and multichannel sound installations: La gran mentira de la muerte [The big lie of death] (2024) and the European debut of On our way to the general strike (2026). Together, the works form a culmination of multiyear research into the expanded myth of Carmen — a problematic figure once popularized by Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, who has haunted over a century of music, stage, and cinema. This body of work reflects Tsang’s iterative, exhaustive practice of returning to stories that transcend our time and geography.