Monday evening, the 19th, I had a lovely little "inauguracion" or opening at a little cafe in El Pueblito which one of Kikey's new favorites. Kikey had arranged for the owner, Veronica, to hang my black and white portrait series, and the inauguracion was my "despedirme" or "goodbye" to all my friends in Queretaro.
The back story is that back in November, I had taken some of these photos to the director of El Museo de la Ciudad, Gabriel Horner, and he had agreed to give me space to hang my work in March. He said he would email me with information about when, what he needed in advance, etc. But I never heard from him, and when I send him an email, he never answered. So I decided not to pursue that any more aggressively.
I actually much prefer the Cuadro Rojo setting as it is much more personal. The only people I really cared about seeing my work are my friends and their friends anyway. So I arranged for Veronica to provide some panninis and botanos and refrescos, and I think everyone had a lovely time. Herminia bought one of my photos (the one of the Somali refugee woman), and a reporter from La Prensa interviewed me (in spanish) and took pictures. It will be fun to see if something actually appears in the newspaper!
Thanks to all my friends - Sylvia,Herminia, Marco, Juan, Lucy, Santiago, Carla, Sophia, Francisco, Guadalupe, Laura and especially Kikey, Aurora and Javier for helping to make this evening such a nice event!!!
Me gusta mucho la secuencia de fotos: la escalera que invita a subir para mirar las fotografías, en segunda "escena" la mujer que mira a la cámara, en escena tercera la mujer que no mira hacia la cámara sino que mira las fotos... y al final las amigas que miran la cámara. La quinta foto no aparece: los amigos que miramos las fotos, estamos ahí con ustedes, pero no salimos en ninguna foto :) -- besos --
ReplyDeleteVery nice, Nancy - great to see that work travel!
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