This black and white advertisement image promotes a housing development called "Loma del Rio," located 36 kilometers from the "Angel" area. The visual elements include a winding road, trees, and various amenities like water, lighting, and telephones that are touted as part of the development's features. The subject matter depicts an idyllic, car-centric suburban landscape, highlighting the modern conveniences and easy payment options available to prospective buyers. The artistic style and technique employ a straightforward, illustrative approach to convey the development's selling points. The historical context suggests this advertisement was part of a larger effort to promote suburban expansion and car-dependent living in the mid-20th century. ...
Débora Delmar
(Mexico City, MX – 1986)
Her work investigates the effects of globalization on everyday life in relation to consumer culture and society. She is particularly focused on the societal consequences, such as issues of class, cultural hegemony and gentrification. This is born from the omnipresent influence of the United States in Mexico, and in the wider world. Her work examines the contextual value of goods, analyzing their production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Within her installations Delmar references corporate architecture, non-places and multinational chains that utilize homogenized minimalist aesthetics. These are commonly composed of a variety of media ranging from photographic prints or modified appropriated objects, to commissioned hand painted signs and carved sculptures. She often also incorporates immaterial components within exhibitions such as sound, scent and situations. ...
LLANO is a Mexican platform focused on artists whose production is the result of long-term research. Their body of work is often related to science, history, technology as well as forgotten wisdom and unforeseen communities. LLANO highlights thought processes and thorough research, creating crosspoints and strong bonds with the work from an immersive standpoint. It aims to take the spectator beyond traditional exhibition formats and deeper into the original source of the work. LLANO is an all-around project where exhibition space evolves into many shapes: from an open field in the top of a former textile factory in Mexico City to volcanos, jungles, deserts, oceans, mountains, as well as urban landscapes and historical landmarks. The diverse projects it presents begin as expeditions that go directly into the context that sourced inspiration and information for the artist and are the natural niches to where the work belongs. LLANO’s intention is to build bridges between the spectator and the profound reasons that hold artworks together, in order to experiment art from a new and different standpoint, both literally and symbolically. ...
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