"At Ruiz-Healy Art, Graciela Iturbide's Rosario y Boo Boo, East Los Angeles (1986) is the most quietly devastating image on the floor. A young woman sits on a bed applying lipstick in a compact mirror, a crying baby balanced in her lap, a crucifix on the wall behind them. It is the oldest composition in photography— mother and child, in a sacred moment —, and Iturbide makes it timeless through sheer proximity and refusal to editorialize.
The richest vein runs through the work of Kati Horna, who appears at two different booths. Ruiz-Healy Art shows two images from the "Oda a la necrofilia" series and one from Paraisos artificiales. The botellon is simultaneously a still life and a portrait. Leonara, from the same series, shows a figure kneeling on a carpet, naked and masked, holding a lit candle before a sleeping form on a bed. Theatrical darkness, ritual quality: it reads like a still from a film that was never made. " — Ben Smalls
