 – On view at the Mint Museum Randolph through Sunday, August 10, 2025, “Women of Land and Smoke: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Maya Goded” (Las Mujeres…){kind=link}
CHARLOTTE, NC (PNAN) – On view at the Mint Museum Randolph through Sunday, August 10, 2025, “Women of Land and Smoke: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Maya Goded” (Las Mujeres de Tierra y Humo: Las Fotografías de Graciela Iturbide y Maya Goded), includes over 50 photographs that present an overview of their careers that span the Americas. This is the first exhibition to present the work of Iturbide and Goded in tandem.
The Mint has been building a significant portfolio of works by these Mexico City-based photographers for the past three years. Over the decades, the two photographers have created revealing, poignant and powerful images that examine the intersection of contemporary life and centuries-long practices throughout North and South America.
Consistently, both artists have dedicated their practice to spending extensive time with their subjects before photographing them; thusly, creating the intimacy and a knowledge of the particular challenges and dynamics embedded in the communities they document, to highlight the vital role of women in holding together fragmenting societies, whether in urban or isolated communities through their lens.
They are a generation apart in age and have worked in various places throughout the world, but their primary focus has been indigenous communities stretching from Los Angeles to Chile.
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Discussing themes throughout the exhibition, Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD, introduces the poignant and powerful photography by Graciela Iturbide and Maya Goded.