Santa Barbara Shame on US
Alejandro Cartagena
Skinnerboox
English
Softcover (Hotfoil Velvet)
112 pages
230x340mm
2017
ISBN 9788894895056
The current state of things in “America” has created a greater divide and contrast socially and especially politically. As such, Santa Barbara Shame on US carefully suggests and addresses these issues that need no literal explanation but an almost theatrical approach to feel the surface and see the inside of the decline of an empire.
About the Artist
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums including the San Francisco MOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Portland Museum of Art, The West Collection, the Coppel collection, the FEMSA collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others.
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About the Publisher
Skinnerboox is an Italian publishing house focused on contemporary photography.
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