Graciele Iturbide’s Mexico

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

NOW CLOSED

Angel Woman, Sonora Desert (1979), Graciela Iturbide. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; © Graciela Iturbide

Ranging from early work, completed while she was a student under the preeminent photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, to photographs of Frida Kahlo’s recently discovered belongings at the Casa Azul, this exhibition charts the career of Graciele Iturbide over five decades. With around 125 photographs on display, it reveals Iturbide’s lyrical approach to capturing the character and contradictions of an ever-changing Mexico, with a focus on her visual documentation of the country’s indigenous communities – from goat-slaughtering rituals in Oaxaca to the women of the Zapotec people. Find out more from the MFA Boston’s website.

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