Anita Brenner (Aguascalientes, 1905-1974) was a writer, anthropologist, and journalist who spent her life between Mexico and the United States. She dedicated to the promotion of Mexican art through her publications, to promote a greater intercultural understanding. In this process, the photography took a primordial place as vehicle of registry and framing of different aspects of the landscape, the characters, the artistic monuments, the customs, and the architectonic and urbanistic transformations of the country.

The exhibition is based on a selection of works from Anita Brenner Archive that is kept by Grupo Salinas Art & Culture, in a dialogue with the National Museum of Art. Make a tour across the different points of view of the artistic and social modernity that are expressed in Brenner’s book: Idols Behind Altars (1929), her magazine Mexico/This Month (1954-1971), and journalistic writings, and the changing dialogues between the Mexican Rebirth and the Mexican Miracle.

Colectiva

Curaduría: Karen Cordero Reiman & Pablo Ortiz Monasterio