KINDERWUNSCHANA CASAS BRODA
09/03/2019 - 09/06/2019
KINDERWUNSCH, an exhibition by Ana Casas Broda is presented for the first time in Mexico City at the Museum of 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 that includes 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.
"The desire to have a child, a pregnancy. To inhabit a foreign, perfect body. Giving birth, breasts full of milk, the delirium of the first months. A timeless, formless space, day and night follow one another without division. The pleasure of that little body glued to mine, to my breast, breastfeeding every three hours, dozing, delirium, exhaustion. A body that feeds on me. So many intense, contradictory, surprising emotions. And at some point, a slip into another scene, an imperceptible, radical movement. Insomnia, circular thoughts.
Suddenly I find myself in a place that terrifies me. A slow and tortuous transit through a dark tunnel. My body urges me to enter, to listen. The memories that crowd my body. I stand still, listening to the voice speaking in my head. Alert. I withdraw inward, self-absorbed, suspended between two times. I'm afraid to move, any movement can provoke a collapse, can let out unsuspected, terrifying monsters. My fear as a child. The fear of what's inside. The games, the affection, the contact, the photos bring me back to the present for a while. Intense, pleasurable sensations that dominate everything. And at the same time, it is my children who summon me to that other scene.
I erased almost all my childhood memories. The ones that remain are anchored to my grandmother's photos. Kinderwunsch, children and desire. German, the language of my childhood. The desire to have children. Recapturing the desire of the little girl in the photos. The intensity of affection, passion, depression. Desire as a journey inwards and outwards at the same time. A vital process".
excerpt from the text of Ana Casas Broda book Kinderwunsch
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.
She has worked at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid - from 1989 to 1993 -, in 1994 she founded the Education area of Centro de la Imagen, where she worked until 1998, from 2000 to 2006 she was coordinator of program FotoGuanajuato, program of studies and festival organised by the Instituto de Cultura de Guanajuato and Centro de la Imagen, from 2007 to 2015 she coordinates the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea of Centro de la Imagen with the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. In 2012 she founded Hydra + Fotografía with Gabriela González Reyes and Gerardo Montiel Klint- As co-curator with Gisela Volá she created "Borrador de un cuerpo intervenido" Arte x Arte, Buenos Aires Argentina, 2017, Hydra x FOAM, Netherlands 2017, among many others. She is co-organiser of the Photobook Fair and the Latin American Photobook Award 2017 at the FotoMuseo Cuatro Caminos in the framework of the Latin American Photography Colloquium. He is a juror for various competitions and grants such as Sistema Nacional de Creadores y Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, 6x6 Global Talent World Press Photo, Photo Vogue, among many others. In 2016 he created INCUBADORA DE FOTOLIBROS, a program where authors develop their photobooks with the advice of national and foreign editors and designers. In 2018 he founded INFRAMUNDO, a publishing project of Hydra, with José Luis Lugo and Ramon Pez, which in 2018 published 24 photobooks and were presented at international fairs.
TEXTS ON KINDERWUNSCH
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Mnemosyne by Susan Bright
Curator, United Kingdom
Beatriz Novaro
Writer and scriptwriter. Mexico)
KINDERWUNSCH PHOTOBOOK
Meet the photobook Kinderwunsch that builds a narrative between texts and a narrative.PRIZE for the best Art book of the year 2014 by the Ministry of Culture, Art and Sport in Spain.
PRESS ABOUT KINDERWUNSCH
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