Felipe Ehrenberg (1943–2017) is perhaps Mexico's most important experimental artist. For over 50 years Ehrenberg tenaciously and ingeniously contributed to the expansion of art and the territory it consumed. His wide-ranging body of work includes pop and conceptual art, painting, drawing, book-objects, performance, installation, theory, and other indescribable hybrids. Ehrenberg's practice was unapologetically unorthodox and a point of reference for anyone interested in the cultural transformations of Mexico since the 1960s.

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His best-known work crosses cultural boundaries and explores the inherent power of language. In Ehrenberg's series of "cajas," or boxes, he utilizes shifting perspectives to create unsettling feelings in the viewer and provoke the idea of power and positioning. Tiny trinkets, like marbles, are often hidden inside the cajas rendering the art object a literal container of images. His work is humble in material and rich in concept. It exhibits Pop motifs like bright colors, appropriated and mechanically-produced imagery, and repetition of form all while remaining characteristically the work of Ehrenberg. 

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Similarly, the catalogue employs such design devices as figure-ground relationships and textual treatments to call attention to the long and troubled history of the United States presumed ownership of "America" and Pop art.