The Embassy of Mexico in Uruguay and MAPI present the exhibition “Mirror of Light” by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.
The opening will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 7 pm, and will remain open to the public until December 12 inclusive.

Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City.
She has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou (1982), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1990), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), the Paul Getty Museum (2007), the Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid (2009), the Photography Museum Winterthur (2009) and the Barbican Art Gallery (2012), among others.

Iturbide is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Foundation, 1987; the Grand Prize Mois de la Photo, Paris, 1988; the Guggenheim Fellowship for the project ‘Fiesta y Muerte’, 1988; the Hugo Erfurth Award, Leverkusen, Germany, 1989; the International Grand Prize, Hokkaido, Japan, 1990; the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie Award, Arles, 1991; the Hasselblad Award, 2008; the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City, 2008; the Doctor honoris causa in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2008; and the Doctor honoris causa in Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009.

In 1969 she entered the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the Universidad Autónoma de México to become a film director.
However, she was soon attracted to the art of photography practiced by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, who was teaching at the same university.
From 1970-71 she worked as his assistant, accompanying him on trips throughout Mexico.

In 1978 Iturbide was commissioned by the Ethnographic Archive of Mexico’s National Indigenist Institute to document the country’s indigenous population.

Iturbide decided to photograph the Seri people, a group of nomadic fishermen in the Sonoran Desert of northwestern Mexico near the Arizona border.

In 1979 she was invited by artist Francisco Toledo to photograph the town of Juchitán, which is part of the Zapotec culture in Oaxaca, in southeastern Mexico.

The series, which began in 1979 and continued until 1988, resulted in the publication of the book Juchitán de las Mujeres in 1989.
Between 1980 and 2000, Iturbide was invited to work in Cuba, East Germany, India, Madagascar, Hungary, Paris and the United States, producing an important number of works.

She continues to live and work in Mexico City.
+ Info: www.gracielaiturbide.org