A conversation between Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Sofía Alazraki, moderated by Guillermo Osorno.
The book Fortuna y Fetiche by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Sofía Alazraki accompanied the exhibition same-titled at Dashwood Projects. The collaboration between Sánchez-Kane and Alazraki began as an exchange of letters between two friends. These were love letters in strange formats—pieces of fabric and objects—like throwing a dart back and forth across the world. What began as a playful, intuitive, and fun exchange slowly evolved into something deeper, until they found a shared point of connection between their two practices, which, though distinct, inhabit a common territory: the mechanism of fashion.
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane in the past five years has established herself as an important, original voice in contemporary art. His works resist the traditional notions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting or installation, all of her works present the anxieties and fears of daily life to question pleasure and domination within a hegemonic masculine society.
Sofía Alazraki is a photographer and set designer working across art, fashion, and film. Formed as an art historian, her practice focuses on still life photography and installation, where she builds carefully choreographed assemblages with objects and unconscious mechanisms as active characters. Her work investigates how desire is projected onto objects and shaped within systems of consumption and representation, unfolding as a multiplicity of symbolic and affective layers.
The book was designed by Alex Lin, from Studio Lin, based in Brooklyn, and includes an essay by Mexican journalist Guillermo Osorno. Osorno is an editor, media entrepreneur and journalist based in Mexico City. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s journalism program and was editor-in-chief of the Latin American narrative journalism magazine, Gatopardo. Recently, he published Tengo que morir todas las noches, a story of ’80s underground and gay culture in Mexico City, and launched the news analysis website Horizontal.mx.
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thursday, august 28, 6 pm
kurimanzutto mexico city
free admission
