Colección Galería Windsor.
The very notion that a country is not something static, but a complex, ongoing process, is difficult for us because capturing (photographically speaking) the miracle of continuous action is challenging. Halting actions for subsequent analysis is a powerful and useful tool, but it is also limited. The same risks apply in the study of history. How to hoist a historical period without contextualizing it, before, after, and within the plurality and divergence of the multidisciplinary approach? In the iconographic sample gathered here, we find a glimpse of the complete history of this strange country that is Mexico: the geography, the uneven terrain and its countless vegetations, the Europeanized Mexican clothing, the Cuauhtémoc in a Phrygian cap, the young and gentle homeland among volcanoes, the luminous sky under which the horizons sing, the rocky universe that shapes us, the lacustrine constellations that dot the territory, the happy stains of our jungles, the variegated coastlines, and the pilgrim landscape of our personalities – the jigsaw puzzle of our identity. Finally, it’s worth noting that while the vast majority of the world’s flags are static symbols (crosses, stars, lights, suns, bars, wheels, networks of two-dimensional geometries), the Mexican national emblem is pure action, legend, and myth: the great cosmic battle between good and evil (according to some early or late evangelists), between the head and the heart (according to popular religious traditions), between knowledge and feeling (according to certain psychological reflections), between spirit and matter (according to symbol dictionaries), between “profound” Mexico and the imperial imposition of Western Europe (according to Mexican esotericists), between one Mexico and the Other… ultimately, between the solar Mexico that illuminates, reveals, and defines us, and the mysterious and dark essence that invisibly shapes us and gives us meaning.
Martha León, compilación y diseño.
Jorge González de León, presentación.
Georgina Reskala, José Ignacio González Manterola, Mariela Miranda, Martha León, fotografía. Martha León, Ángel García Domínguez, diseño.
México, 2010, primera edición
76 páginas, 21 x 27, 1 000 ejemplares
Contornos.com / Jorge Pinto Books Nueva York, 2010, segunda edición
56 páginas, 14 x 21.5 cm
