Alinka Echeverria b. 1981
The Road to Tepeyac #132, 2010
Archival pigment print - Hahnemuhle fine art print, mounted on aluminium in hand stained tulip frame
79.1 x 61.1 cm
31 1/8 x 24 1/8 ins
31 1/8 x 24 1/8 ins
1/7 + 2APs
It captures devout pilgrims carrying their personal image of the Virgin of Guadalupe during the annual pilgrimage to Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City, the site of her miraculous apparition.* This...
It captures devout pilgrims carrying their personal image of the Virgin of Guadalupe during the annual pilgrimage to Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City, the site of her miraculous apparition.* This photographic sequence which launched Echeverría’s career, deconstructs the philosophical, psychological and anthropological relationship between an invisible presence and its materialised expression.
