Despite the political climate, Buenos Aires was a culturally vibrant city in the mid-20th century. Founded in 1958 to modernize Argentine culture, the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella was at the forefront of the modern artistic movements of the time. Honorio Morales participated in the famed competition of this premier institution during its height in 1965 propelling him into the Pop Art scene. Only one year later in New York, he was featured in the Guggenheim Museum’s The Emergent Decade exhibition and soon after won the renowned institution's namesake fellowship in 1967. Produced during this momentous year, Morales like his contemporaries and fellow Argentines, Marta Minujín and Luis Camnitzer, strove to broaden the definition of Latin American art to encompass installation. Morales created environments by integrating irregularly shaped canvases into domestic interiors, pushing the expanse of a space through color and fluid geometry.