Ana Topolenau, photographs and stories, Text by Arturo Dávila
Ana Topoleanu. Those from the other coast: the raicillero world.
Los de la Otra Costa is a documentary photography project carried out by Ana Topoleanu with texts by Arturo Dávila. This exhibition narrates the tradition of the raicilla on the Coast of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco; from its process and tradition, to the families that have dedicated themselves to this work for generations. Through captivating images, Los de la Otra Costa reveals the relationship between these families and the natural environment where the coastal landscape and country life converge.
Ana Topoleanu is a documentary photographer of Romanian origin, whose projects have been published in media such as T Magazine, The New York Times and Vogue. Her work stands out for offering an intimate narrative and having cultural diversity as its central axis.
Curator:
Rubén Ortiz Torres studied fine arts and graduated from the National School of Fine Arts, UNAM, Mexico City. In 1990 he obtained a Fulbright scholarship to study at the California Institute of the Arts, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). He draws on a wide range of artistic practices, including photography, video, film, installation and painting. Ortiz Torres is considered one of the most important Mexican artists of today, and an innovator in the 80s and 90s of a specifically Mexican type of postmodernism. His work is part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MoCA), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), among many others, both public and private. .
