UNAM
EXHIBITIONS
Encuentro Internacional de Fotografia
“CALEIDOSCOPIO”
(International Gathering of Photography called “Caleidoscopio”)
Since 2003 this group from the National University Autonoma of Mexico, led by the photography professor Fierro Ayala, have organized and produced a photographic exhibition and symposium. The exhibit then travels to Havana Cuba. Each year professor Ayala sends the participants a theme from which to work.
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2014 Caleidoscopio XII
Theme: Defeat in the face of perverse consumerism
“If you have no money...”
Liquid light silver gelatin darkroom prints on linen, sewn onto acid free water color paper, with coin rubbing and pencil, US bills collaged into the work
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2013 Caleidoscopio XI
Theme: El Cuerpo y sus signos; marcas de identidad (The body and its signs, marks of identity)
“A COSTUME PARTY”
11X14” Color digital images. (Images still in Mexico)
2012 Caleidoscopio X
Theme: La Crisis de lo Humano, espejos en el olvido (The Human Crisis, Mirrors In the Negligence)
“PETROLEO”
Color images collaged on board, and splattered with ink (Images still in Mexico)
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2011 Caleidoscopio IX
Theme: La Fiesta (The Celebration)
“LOCOS PARADE”
Hand sewn and colored B&W images
2010 Caleidoscopio VIII
Theme: Texturas Sociales; un disparo visual desde la lucha de contrarios (Social textures; a visual shot of the battle between opposites)
(IMAGES NO LONGER IN EXISTENCE)
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2009 Caleidoscopio VII
Theme: El Vacio (The Gap)
“THE MAN IN THE MIRROR”
an homage to Michael Jackson.
Hand drawn stencil over B&W image, sepia toned, lyrics added with typewriter and mounted on mirror.
2008 Caleidoscopio VI
Theme: El Duelo (Grief)
“HOJAS CAIDAS” (Fallen Leaves)
B&W images on Linen with sewing
The poem reads:
Fallen leaves
Like us
Never to return to the tree
In the same way
We fall
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2007 Caleidoscopio V
Theme: Cicatrices, la marca de muestros pueblos (Scars,the mark from our histories)
“THE PROJECT”
11x14"
The poem reads:
Our last days intrude with masked memories and unmentionable truths
The tenuous fabric of life until a whisper from heaven and we are good again
2006 Caleidoscopio IV
Theme: Del destello al estallido (From the twinkle to the explosion)
(IMAGES NOT AVAILABLE)
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2005 Caleidoscopio III
Theme: Tan Libre como se quiera (So free as you want)
“FRENDS”
3 in a series (11”x14”)
2004 Caleidoscopio II
Theme: Causas y raices (Causes and roots)
(IMAGES NOT AVAILABLE)
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