Between Two Worlds

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds surveys more than five decades of the celebrated Mexican photographer’s practice through more than 150 photographs. The exhibition moves across markets, festivals, rituals, landscapes, botanical gardens, self-portraits and scenes of everyday life, tracing the extraordinary visual consistency of an artist who has worked in Mexico and internationally since the 1970s.

Iturbide’s black-and-white photographs are rooted in sustained observation rather than detached documentary description. Working closely with the people and places she photographs, she often discovers moments in which ordinary life appears symbolic, theatrical or uncanny. Birds, plants, ceremonies, domestic spaces and bodies become recurring motifs through which she considers identity, death, transformation and the relationship between tradition and modernity.

The exhibition also places well-known series alongside less frequently seen bodies of work, allowing recurring themes to emerge across different periods and geographies. At its centre is Iturbide’s distinctive ability to hold documentary specificity and poetic ambiguity in the same image.

Image credit: Graciela Iturbide, La Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca, México, 1979. © Graciela Iturbide.