Gabriel Orozco uses photography, video, installation, drawing and sculpture to explore forms that fall between philosophy, science, history and art. Extensive travel informs Orozco's work, and much of his wide-ranging practice blurs the boundaries between the everyday flow of life and the formalised categories of art. Bridging the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, his work draws on the legacy of Modernism to engage with the present.

Double tail 2003 continues Orozco's interest in physical and natural phenomena. Using expanding polyurethane foam, which is both fragile and deceptively solid as a sculptural mass, Orozco has fashioned a suspended object that generates visual tensions between gravity and mass, flatness and three-dimensionality, surface and form. This manipulation creates further ambiguities: the forms resemble fossils, bones or skeletal structures on the one hand and a futuristic, aquatic or aerodynamic object on the other. As with much of his work, the finished result simultaneously refers to the materials and processes of its construction while transcending these as creations of startling beauty and simplicity.