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The power of Graciela Iturbide´s photographs resides in their ability to transform common characters and situations into a lyrical language of symbols that transcends “Mexican-ness”, thus conveying a particular vision of universal issues, such as identity, poverty, and the beauty of nature. For over three decades, this photographer –one of the most prominent in Mexico and the whole of Latin America– has created suggestive images in black and white, of which around thirty produced between 1974 and 2005 were displayed at this show. Some are pervaded with an absurd theatricality –in the style of surrealist films–, among them, Mujer Angel, Desierto de Sonora (1980), which features a woman with long dark hair, with her back to the viewer, facing a desert landscape as in a sort of reunion with it, while she holds a portable radio in her hand. In another photograph, Nuestra Señora (1974), Iturbide makes use of her scrutinizing eye, her playful associations of forms and a sharp sense of humor to transform a peasant into a Virgin of Guadaloupe. The exhibition also included photographs from her Birds series, as well as her works executed in India.
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