Images of Mexico in China
录入时间: 2007-10-17
The exhibition The gaze of 45 Mexican Photographers
presents for the first time in history, a representative selection of Mexican
photographers in China. The exhibition is possible thanks to the support of the
Pedro Meyer Foundation, being this, the organization’s first project, under the
curatorship of Pedro Meyer and Francisco Mata. The show reflects the diversity
of thought and vision with which images are produced now in
Mexico.
Up until now, there has been few intersecting
points between the Asian photographic tradition and that which is practiced in
Latin America; this region was once described by the diplomat and political
scientist Alain Rouquié as the extreme west, referring to its close ties with
Western culture, but also to its position, at once peripheral and strategic,
from which it has been able to engage in exchanges with other cultures; such as
the Asian culture, specifically in countries such as Peru and Brazil, or cities
such as Mexicali, in the northern region of Mexico. These settlements of Asian
population in Latin America have notably enriched the culture and imagination of
our countries, reminding us somehow, that the first settlers in our continent
came precisely from the Orient.
In The gaze of 45 Mexican
Photographers, Francisco Mata and Pedro Meyer have structured an a encompassing
vision that allows us to better understand the ways in which photography
reflects the deep social and cultural changes through which Mexico is going
through at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Through the
plurality of perspectives with which the Mexican photographers perceive the
world, it is possible to identify multiple dimensions of reality, not
necessarily dependant on a specific geographic context, but rather that of the
author that imagines and creates from a specific place.
Pedro Meyer’s prestige as a visionary that has widened the horizons for Latin
American Photography, is well known. His work as President of the Mexican
Council of Photography, entity from which he organized the first two colloquiums
of Latin American Photography in 1978 and 1982, and later as director of
zonezero.com, has been crucial so that the work of numerous photographers from
around the world, but specifically from Mexico and Latin America, gain
visibility. On the other hand, Francisco Mata is one of the most well
known Mexican photographers today. His roles as an editor and collaborator
of various projects have gifted him with noteworthy experience in the
construction of iconographic discourses with his and other’s
images.
El Centro de la Imagen, collaborates in this
project with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to help support the
invitation of 5 photographers to visit China and attend the exhibition. El
Centro de la Imagen was delighted to be host during the visit of Dr. Wang
Huangsehng, Director of the Museum of Guangdong, to Mexico. We thus celebrate
the beginning of this new route promotion of Mexican Photography, with a
project, that without a doubt will become a reference for future exchanges in
the field of photography between Mexico and China.
Alejandro
Castellanos
General Director
Centro de la Imagen
开放时间：每周二至周日9：00-17：00（逢周一闭馆）
每日16：30停止入场
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