Description:
Colorful interior view of a crowded room with white walls. A man in a green soccer jersey enters at left (a red umbrella is open above his head), a girl holding an animal figurine sits on a chair at center, a young boy in a sweatsuit stands on a chair at right, and a woman holding a towel enters from a door behind them.
Label Text:
In her multi-year photographic project, Two Million Homes for Mexico, Livia Corona shines a spotlight on the still-unfolding ramifications of one of the modern era’s most ambitious, expansive, and rapidly developed public housing projects. Begun in the early 2000s during the presidency of Vicente Fox Quesada, immense grids of tightly packed, 130-square-foot houses were constructed virtually overnight, sometimes at a rate of 2,500 homes a day. This urbanization project omitted fundamental amenities of community living like schools, parks, grocery stores, and public transportation. In a personal statement about this series, Corona states “through photographs, interviews, and film, I look for the gap between the promises of homeownership and its fulfillment.”
-Ellen Alvord, Weatherbie Curator of Education and Academic Programs, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Jan. 2017)
Tags:
social commentary; interiors; families Link to share this object record:
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