Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico Tour at Museum of Fine Arts (04.03.19)
Join us for a group visit to Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico at the Museum of Fine Arts. We will be joined by the exhibit curator.
Start: Wednesday, April 3 at 5:50 PM
End: Wednesday, April 3 at 7:15 PM
Where: Fenway Entrance on The Fenway on the Museum’s North side
Iturbide’s photographs not only bear witness to Mexican society but express an intense personal and poetic lyricism about her native country. One of the most influential photographers active in Latin America today, Iturbide captures everyday life and its cultures, rituals, and religions, while also raising questions about paradoxes and social injustice in Mexican society. Her photographs tell a visual story of Mexico since the late 1970s—a country in constant transition, defined by the coexistence of the historical and modern as a result of the culture’s rich amalgamation of cultures. For Iturbide, photography is a way of life and a way of seeing and understanding Mexico and its beauty, challenges, and contradictions.
This is the first major East Coast presentation of Iturbide’s work, featuring approximately 125 photographs that span her five-decade-long career. Iturbide’s powerful and provocative photographs are anti-picturesque, anti-folkloric. Her work embodies her empathetic approach to photography and her deep connection with her subjects, asking questions through its capacity for imaginary associations. Drawn primarily from Iturbide’s own collection, “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico” also includes the Museum’s recent acquisition of 37 works by the artist, as well as loans from museums and private collections throughout the US and Mexico.
Join the group inside The Fenway Entrance on The Fenway on the Museum’s North side at 5:50 PM. If you are late, meet in the Henry and Lois Foster Gallery (Gallery 158) and Robert and Jane Burke Gallery (Gallery 335).