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Allejandro Cartagena Suburbia MexicanaJuly 14th - August 25th, 2012 reception and booksigning (with Alejandro) Saturday, July 14th from 6:00 - 8:00
The richness of photographic images being produced in México today is broader and richer than ever. Even while a feeling of detriment prevails in most Mexican cities and its inhabitants due to insecurity and social unrest, photography is at its best in such times, reflecting these situations or those far from them.
This exhibition will feature work by AlejandraLaviada Melba Arellano David Corona Claudia Hans Eunice Adorno José Luis Cuevas Kenia Narez Omar Gamez Alinka Echeverria Roberto Tondopó
Alejandro Cartagena Cartagena captures both the destruction that rapid urbanization has imposed on the landscape and the phenomenon of densely packed housing, with perpetual rows of tiny houses slicing directly into the foothills of the picturesque mountains that surround Monterrey. The homes are small, generally under 100 square meters (or less than 328 square feet), and usually occupied by four to six people. Only the landscape appears capable of limiting their proliferation, the mountains and rivers the only forces able to contain their sprawl.
