GRACIELA ITURBIDE RETROSPECTIVE AT CASA DE MÉXICO
The Casa de México Foundation in Spain is hosting Cuando habla la luz (When Light Speaks), the first retrospective of Graciela Iturbide (Mexico City, 1942) since she received the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. Curated by Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the exhibition brings together 115 works spanning from 1972 to 2017.
The institution offers a comprehensive overview of the Mexican artist’s prolific career, showcasing many of her most iconic photographs and guiding visitors through thematic groupings that shed light on what is arguably the most influential figure in contemporary Mexican photography. Her images navigate the line between documentary and anthropological photography, imbued with a distinctive sense of magical realism and a deeply personal vision shaped over decades. Her work captures the complexity and depth of Mexican culture and landscape, exploring its contrasts and nuances.
The celebration of life and death—interwoven with the atavistic, the traditional, and the dreamlike—runs through her subjects, set against landscapes that blur the lines between reality and reverie. In its ethnographic dimension, her photography offers a deeper understanding of the customs and ancestral heritage of her native Mexico, a country she has explored thoroughly with the aim of recording more than mere appearances.
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Graciela Iturbide: Cuando habla la luz, en Casa de México en España
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Graciela Iturbide: Cuando habla la luz, en Casa de México en España
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Graciela Iturbide: Cuando habla la luz, en Casa de México en España
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Graciela Iturbide: Cuando habla la luz, en Casa de México en España
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Graciela Iturbide: Cuando habla la luz, en Casa de México en España
Our Lady of the Iguanas (1979) and The Angel Woman (1979) are two of her most iconic works included in the show, standing as testaments to a body of work that unfolds throughout the galleries in multiple perspectives. The exhibition is divided into twenty thematic sections, which, as much as possible, organize the photographs by approach. These modules present a proposal that moves between portrait and geometry, the spatial and the spiritual—united by the common thread of an artist who unveils a world of captivating iconography.
Cuando habla la luz is on view through September 14 at Fundación Casa de México en España, Alberto Aguilera 20, Madrid (Spain).
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