About the collection:
State of Nuevo León, Mexico, 2005-2010. This image is part of a 5-year project called Suburbia Mexicana. I wanted to document some of the unintended consequences of the housing bubble many cities in Mexico were going through. I was also very interested in the aesthetic questions posed by using ultra beautiful landscape imagery to represent ecological degradation. It is a nod to the romantic use of tragedy in paintings; a visual exploration of the grandeur of disaster as a way to comment on the other side of Mexico’s copy pasted ideals of homeownership.
About the artist:
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
More:
Suburbia Mexicana, Lost Rivers #1
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Suburbia Mexicana, Lost Rivers #2
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