The rest of what one can say about him is up for negotiation, or of shifting importance. For more than two decades, Ocampo has pursued an approach to art-making that lives out the late French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s claim that the apocalypse has already occurred, and that this has happened at the level of the linguistic sign. In his canvases, Ocampo deploys a vast arsenal of art-historical and literary references, religious and popular iconography—including crucifixes, teeth, emoticons, sausages, swastikas, feces and flowers—which collide in caustic relationships, creating pictures that refer to their own making.