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Kati Horna: In Motion

Past exhibition
March 9 - May 19, 2023 New York City
Kati Horna, La muñeca, Mexico, 1956
Kati Horna, La muñeca, Mexico, 1956

Kati Horna Mexican, 1912-2000

La muñeca, Mexico, 1956
Vintage gelatin silver print
9.5 x 7.75 in
24.1 x 19.7 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Kati Horna, Untitled, from the series Marchés aux puces, Paris, 1933/1960
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Kati Horna, Untitled, from the series Marchés aux puces, Paris, 1933/1960
'La muñeca' features a puppet which later reappeared in a cover shoot Kati Horna did of Beatriz Sheridan for the magazine 'Mujeres: Expresión femenina' in 1962. Sheridan is pictured holding...
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"La muñeca" features a puppet which later reappeared in a cover shoot Kati Horna did of Beatriz Sheridan for the magazine "Mujeres: Expresión femenina" in 1962. Sheridan is pictured holding the anthropomorphic puppet in her right hand, and the two appear to be gazing at each other. Horna often photographed the featured women of "Mujeres" with props. Art historian Christina L. De León comments: “The juxtaposition of an accomplished woman with what might be a child’s toy is deliberately jarring and even peculiar, but the strategy is also one that certainly became a hallmark of Horna’s portrait photography in Mexico. She used such objects to both reveal something more about her sitter and also to provoke questions without answers, a strategy that ironically (and deliberately) made the photographed subject more unknowable or mysterious, and thus more complex.”
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Exhibitions

Kati Horna: In Motion, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, 2023
Kati Horna, Jeu De Paume, Paris, France and Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; curators: Angeles Alonso Espinosa and José Antonio Rodríguez (catalogue)

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Flores, Sergio, ed. Kati Horna. Paris: Jeu de Paume and Museo Amparo, Puebla, 2013, p. 191 (illustrated).

Publications

Cover of Mujeres magazine, February, 1962
Mejorada, Alicia Sánchez. “Kati Horna: Un Mirada Insólita y Cotidiana.” In Cuartoscuro, September 2001.
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