Other Gazes. Women Photographers in Mexico

Around 120 photographs and 46 documents make up the exhibition entitled Other Gazes. Women Photographers in Mexico, 1872-1960. Under the curatorship of José Antonio Rodríguez, the show represents a historical survey that gathers the visual productions and aesthetic proposals by women in the photography field. Osvaldo Sánchez, the MAM's director, pointed out during the inauguration that, nowadays, the interest to enrich the established historical constructions through the presentation of themes, authors, and perspectives, marked by a circumstantial vision, has become increasingly more common. The exhibition will remain open at the MAM until August of 2011, and then, beginning in September of this year, it will be presented at the exhibition center of Casa de América in Madrid, Spain. The show rescues images, authors, photographs, and documents never-before-seen, or not shown for decades, that reconstruct history. The exhibition is divided into four axes: Pioneers, who between 1872 and 1905, were responsible for initiating the photographic profession in Mexico; Moderns, who produced and promoted their works from modern studios established in association with family members or other photographers; Vanguardists, a group formed by women artists from Mexico and other parts of the world responsible for transforming the visual photographic discourse; and Humanists, who during the 1940s began to work to formulate a vision of Mexican society. The exhibition includes photographs by Tina Modotti, María Guadalupe Suárez, the Torres sisters, María Vallejo, Josefina Niggli, and Lola Álvarez, among others.