Frankly, the idea of anything inspired by predictive modeling, whether behavior, economics, meteorology, vulcanology, product testing, the credit system … Have I lost you already? Yes, it’s hard to imagine a sculpture inspired by the credit system, but Gabriel Kuri goes for it anyway. His thoughtful works about real-world systems are created playfully with real-world items such as lightbulbs or chewing gum or perfume or avocados or plastic bags. For his first institutional survey in his home country of Mexico, Kuri presents 50 works, three of them new. —Clara Molot