Tina Modotti

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Tina Modotti (Udine, 1896-Mexico City, 1942) lived in the eye of the storm throughout her life. Her life and artistic career were framed by some of the most important historical events of the 1920s and 1930s and by her constant double commitment: artist-photographer and revolutionary-anti-fascist militant.

Born into a working-class family in Udine, in northern Italy, she emigrated and grew up in the United States, where she became a film actress in Hollywood in the 1920s and met Edward Weston, who introduced her to photography and with whom she moved to Mexico in 1923.

Almost all her photographic work was produced between 1923 and 1930. During those years in Mexico, and following her apprenticeship with Weston, Modotti evolved from an interest in abstract forms to a gaze centered on the human being with a focus denouncing inequality and injustice. The precarious conditions of workers, urban poverty and the role of women in the community became, among other similar issues, the main themes of her photography conceived as political propaganda.

This exhibition is the result of extensive research, which has made it possible to bring together many vintage prints by Modotti. In addition to the nearly 250 photographs on display, grouped chronologically into four sections, the exhibition includes documentary material, one of the films that Modotti starred in Hollywood and some works by Edward Weston.

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