Graciela Iturbide Mexican, b. 1942
Ojos Para Volar (Eyes to Fly With), Coyoacán, Mexico, 1991
Silver Gelatin Print
14 x 11 in
35.6 x 27.9 cm
35.6 x 27.9 cm
There is a magical, ritualistic quality to self-portraits. *Eyes to Fly With, Coyoacan* references one of the favorite motifs of surrealist iconography: the negation of the eye, by wounding or...
There is a magical, ritualistic quality to self-portraits. *Eyes to Fly With, Coyoacan* references one of the favorite motifs of surrealist iconography: the negation of the eye, by wounding or closing it, to access another, broader, deeper, and more truthful vision. In turn, her self-portraits with animals—snails, a fish sealing its mouth, snakes emerging from it—have an almost shamanic quality, an invocation of nature as an otherness from which to see and speak.
Exhibitions
2006, Eyes to Fly With, Wittliff Gallery, Alkek Library, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2016, Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX (catalogue)
2018, Graciela Iturbide: Cuando Habla La Luz, Palacio de Iturbide, Ciudad de México; curator: Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera (catalogue)
Publications
Iturbide, Graciela. Graciela Iturbide: Cuando Habla La Luz. Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2017, p. 35 (illustrated)
Baranda, María. Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See. San Antonio, TX: Ruiz-Healy Art, 2016, p. 29 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela. Graciela Iturbide, Madrid: Fundación Mapfre, 2009, p. 6 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela, Fabienne Bradu and Alejandro Castellanos. Eyes to Fly With: Portraits, Self-portraits, and Other Photographs. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006, p. iv (illustrated)