Love and politics

Author / Creator

Cartagena, Alejandro, 1977- book artist

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A critical view of the relationship between political and corporate power and society during the "modernization" period of the city of Monterrey in the first half of the 20th century. OUR GUIDE is ...

A critical view of the relationship between political and corporate power and society during the "modernization" period of the city of Monterrey in the first half of the 20th century. OUR GUIDE is a book of portraits that ridicules the theatricality of politics, Alejandro Cartagena and Fernando Gallegos present a compendium of "cards" of power: the "chosenʺ sons from a god who is man, white and ostentatious. THE INAUGURATION portrays the romanceʺ relationship between the governing class and the State. The images that make up the book MUSIC FOR THE MASSES portray the rupture between what is legitime and has lost all meanings. For decades attending public gatherings with the President, governors or company directors, or appearing in a photo with them, were events that gave importance to common people. THE SUPERVISORS include images of "progress" of the city of Monterrey on the first half of the 20th century. "The territory as comodity of infinite possibilities that began with the psycho-magical presence of suited men (never women) with their fine hats and shoes." RITUALS OF LOVE presents the images of the theatricality to sustain political and corporate power. One of the psychomagical acts of the first anointments of modern corporate power was to attach pins to the suit lapel, a gesture that clothed them with power. These gentelmen raised their hand taking an oath of loyalty and service and could demand obidience from others. FOR OUR CHILDREN comprises images of zoos and parks from the first half of the 20th century in the city of Monterrey when flora and fauna were became tools of modernization, converted into a product of the period's notion of childhood, who without a politcal voice, enjoy this space "because the rest of the city doesn't belong to them".

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