Cartagena doesn’t need to inject much commentary to create extremely powerful images. (Huffington Post)
Alejandro Cartagena, Untitled Car Pooler #2, 2011
Alejandro Cartagena’s Car Poolers
Circuit Gallery is pleased to offer a striking series of new works by Mexican-based photographer Alejandro Cartagena from his award winning project Car Poolers.
Cartagena was recently recognized in both the “People” and “Architecture” categories by the jury of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards.
Offering a different take on ‘car pooling’ Cartagena continues his pointed investigation of the multiple and complex issues relating to unhampered suburban expansion. This recognition is not surprising, as this project, like his earlier Suburbia Mexicana comes from a deeply committed practice and desire to tell the story of the dramatic changes (environmental, demographic, economic) he is witnessing play out in his home city of Monterrey.
Cartagena’s work was recently acquired by both the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (MoCP) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and will be featured in SFMOMA’s upcoming exhibition Photography in Mexico (opening March 10 and running through July 08, 2012).
Alejandro Cartagena, Untitled Car Pooler #4, 2011
Alejandro Cartagena, Untitled Car Pooler #1, 2011
Alejandro Cartagena, Untitled Car Pooler #3, 2011
Artist Bio
Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His work has been exhibited and published internationally, and is in several public and private collections in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, and the United States, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, and the Joaquim Paiva Collection, Sao Paolo, Brazil. He is the recipient of several major national grants, numerous awards, and acquisition prizes in Mexico and abroad. He is represented by Circuit Gallery (Toronto).
For more information contact Claire Sykes:
claire@circuitgallery.com | 1-647-477-2487
February 28th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Your Car Poolers are a great subject and wonderful representation of the border. Great work.