Beggars (Mendigos)

Latin American Contemporary Art
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Beggars (Mendigos)

Edition: 2/4

Mexico, Mexico City, 2002-2004
Time Based Media
(Eighty) slides, slide carousel
Dimensions variable
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2007.47.1-.8)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

The images document people pleading for money at the entrances to the Mexico City subway....
The images document people pleading for money at the entrances to the Mexico City subway. The perspective of seeing the subjects from above reinforces notions of hierarchy: the viewer is the silent voyeur, placed at a safe distance from the beggars, who steals a furtive glimpse of the pitiful underside of urban life. Ilona Katzew, 2008
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