Graciela Iturbide Mexican, b. 1942
Cabritas: La Mixteca, Oaxaca, 1992
Silver Gelatin Print
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.6 cm
50.8 x 40.6 cm
Each year in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, in south-central Mexico, tens of thousands of goats are slaughtered. The month-long ritual dates back to colonial times, when Spanish landowners first...
Each year in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, in south-central Mexico, tens of thousands of goats are slaughtered. The month-long ritual dates back to colonial times, when Spanish landowners first contracted Mixtec Indians to butcher their animals for sale, paying them only in goat entrails and hooves. In 1992, Iturbide traveled to La Mixteca. The images she made at the Hacienda Santa Maria in El Rosario reveal a carnal reality that Iturbide likens to both a sensual and a biblical experience.
Exhibitions
2006, Images of the Spirit, Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY; curator: Michael E. Hoffman (catalogue)Publications
Iturbide, Graciela, Alfredo López Austin and Roberto Tejada. Images of the Spirit, New York: Aperture, 1996, p. 21 (illustrated)
