KINDERWUNSCH
ANA CASAS BRODA

07/03/2019 - 09/06/2019

Talk about your brand

KINDERWUNSCH, an exhibition by Ana Casas Broda is presented for the first time in Mexico City. Presenters: Beatriz Novaro (writer and scriptwriter), Mauricio Maillé (curator and project manager), José María Espinasa (director of the Mexico City Museum) and Ana Casas Broda (author). 

Kinderwunsch is a project by Ana Casas Broda developed over seven years into a book and an exhibition including texts, photographs and two video installations. 

The book Kinderwunsch was published by La Fábrica, Spain, and the exhibition opened at the PHotoEspaña 2015 festival at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. After touring several international and national venues, we are particularly pleased to see it presented at the Museo de la Ciudad de México.  
Kinderwunsch is a project that has resulted in several discourses that give shape to a book and an exhibition. Developed over seven years, this work focuses on the reflection on photography as a contemporary medium linked to identity, memory and time. 

Through an exhaustive and profound exploration through actions, documentation, and writing, Ana Casas approaches motherhood as an experience full of contradictions. Kinderwunsch questions the construction of the notion of childhood, the individual, and touches on issues central to society, such as the body, nudity, sensuality, infertility, contact, affection, desire, family ties and the role of women in the intense and determining process of motherhood. 

As part of a post-feminist generation, Ana Casas questions motherhood from her own experience as a vehicle to generate reflection on different levels in the spectator. 

Nelson Morales

The body as the centre of conscious and unconscious experiences, the encounter with the child as a rupture and construction of the mother as a person, and of a radical change of location in the world. Motherhood as the crossroads of a shift in the generational chain, of the transformation of the woman in the complex role of mother, and at the same time the inevitable return to one's own childhood as the one that nourishes our deepest notion of the mother-child bond. 

Exhibition and book use different formats, languages and supports that complement each other and construct this reflection on the experience of motherhood, but above all on the very nature of the different media that make use of the image and address issues central to contemporary identity. It is an exhibition that, in terms of concept, articulates a discourse that is both visual and literary, with projections, audio, sequences, generating a spatial and temporal experience.

Starting from the idea of photography as a medium in constant mutation, constantly adapting to the need to restructure the way we conceive reality,

Kinderwunsch is a work that provokes an intense reaction at different levels in the viewer, and uses it to raise a series of questions. Touching on the viewer's own experience, it leads to a questioning of some concepts central to the nature of the image, its connection to experience, as well as the profound transformations in our notions of representation, reality and time. 

This work uses art as a means of honest and risky exploration of the world that seeks to push the boundaries of our notions of the body and motherhood, delicate and crucial issues for all of us. A compelling work that engages and challenges our gaze. Through images and texts she introduces us to an intimate and personal world in order to provoke a deep reflection on all that motherhood entails. 

The exhibition has a total of 80 images in formats from 150x180 cms to 40x50 cms, eight photomurals of up to 7 mts, two video and audio projections. 

Nelson Morales

Kinderwunsch is a project that has resulted in several discourses that give shape to a book and an exhibition. Developed over seven years, this work focuses on the reflection on photography as a contemporary medium linked to identity, memory and time. 
Through an exhaustive and profound exploration through actions, documentation, and writing, Ana Casas approaches motherhood as an experience full of contradictions. Kinderwunsch questions the construction of the notion of childhood, the individual, and touches on issues central to society, such as the body, nudity, sensuality, infertility, contact, affection, desire, family ties and the role of women in the intense and determining process of motherhood. As part of a post-feminist generation, Ana Casas questions motherhood from her own experience as a vehicle to generate reflection on different levels in the spectator. 

ABOUT ANA CASAS BRODA

(SPAIN | MEXICO 1965), has lived in Mexico since 1974. He studied Visual Arts, History and Photography in Mexico, Spain, Austria and the United States. Since 1983 he has had numerous solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores FONCA 2008-2011. Published two photobooks: Álbum, published by Mestizo, Spain, 2000; and Kinderwunsch, published by La Fábrica, 2013, winner of the Best Art Book Award by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Culture and Sport in 2014. Álbum was presented as a solo exhibition at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, in 2001-2002, at Casa de América, PHotoEspaña festival 2002, and at several other international venues. Kinderwunsch opened at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, PHotoEspaña festival 2015, and was later presented at FOTOHOF, Salzbugo, Austria, 2016, at the Museo Regional de Querétaro, Mexico, 2017 and at the Museo de la Ciudad de México, 2019. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and publications, including HOMETRUTHS, book and exhibition curated by Susan Bright, presented at Photographers Gallery, London, UK, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2015, Belfast Exposed, festival in Ireland, 2015.Since 1990 she has been organising activities on photography, educational programmes, meetings, festivals, etc. He was assistant to Manuel Álvarez Bravo in 1986. 

TEXTS ON KINDERWUNSCH

Download the texts: 

Mnemosyne by Susan BrightCurator, UK,
Beatriz Novaro : Writer and scriptwriter. Mexico)

Image slide

Image slide

Image slide

We invite you to discover the book Kinderwunsch, published by the publishing house La Fábrica, in co-publication with Fundación Televisa, program de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales, FONCA, and BMUK, Austria.
We share with you different press articles about the exhibition Kinderwunsch.

We invite you to see the work of Ana Casas Broda that we offer for sale at Hydra.

$200.00
$200.00
$200.00
$200.00
$200.00
$200.00
$200.00
$200.00