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Baja Moda CXIII, Cuba
Pablo López Luz (Mexican, born 1979)
2019
Medium/Technique
Color, inkjet
Dimensions
Image: 27.4 × 33.6 cm (10 13/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund for Photography
Accession Number2022.44
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPhotographs
Born in 1979, Pablo López Luz explores Mexican identity through photographs of landscapes and cityscapes, from above and within Mexico City. His works also include residential facades and other architectural details found across the megalopolis, fusing Mexico’s pre-Columbian history with its modern identity through use of visual patterns and pyramids. Deeply influenced by photographer Graciela Iturbide, López Luz brings forth the complexities of contemporary Mexican culture through his organic, geometric, and poetic visual observations.
This photograph is from a 2019 series – “Baja Moda” (Low Fashion) – “Baja Moda CXIII, Cuba” – documents storefronts across Latin America. López Luz seeks to represent contemporary Latin American identity and resistance through his images of the carefully composed storefronts that portray popular culture, while evoking the precarity of local businesses due to the impending threat of globalization and arrival of multinational clothing stores.The makeshift Cuban dressing room colorfully capture fading local livelihoods. This photograph has similar characteristics to that of French photographer Eugene Atget’s work. They are both documentary and surreal at the same time, while documenting a singular moment in time that is rapidly changing before our eyes.
This photograph is from a 2019 series – “Baja Moda” (Low Fashion) – “Baja Moda CXIII, Cuba” – documents storefronts across Latin America. López Luz seeks to represent contemporary Latin American identity and resistance through his images of the carefully composed storefronts that portray popular culture, while evoking the precarity of local businesses due to the impending threat of globalization and arrival of multinational clothing stores.The makeshift Cuban dressing room colorfully capture fading local livelihoods. This photograph has similar characteristics to that of French photographer Eugene Atget’s work. They are both documentary and surreal at the same time, while documenting a singular moment in time that is rapidly changing before our eyes.
InscriptionsOn the back of the print, with black ink: "Baja Moda CXIII, Cuba, 2019" +
signature + "AP I"
signature + "AP I"
Provenance2019, Pablo López Luz, Mexico City, to Toluca Fine Art (Paris, France); 2021, Toluca Fine Art sold to MFA. (Accession Date: February 16, 2022)