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Alejandro Cartagena
Car Poolers #58, 2012/2021
Archival pigment print, 22 x 14.3 inches
Edition 3/10, signed certificate of authenticity
Framed
Courtesy of the artist and Assembly
Estimated value: $2,500
"Carpoolers" is a series of images that portray construction workers on their way to work in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For years Alejandro has been creating a story surrounding the housing boom in Mexico and its unintended consequences on people´s everyday life. This image is part of a series of 50 pictures that represent a group of men resiliently finding ways to solve the problem of lack of transportation from their new suburbs to the city. Home ownership has become a great opportunity for working families but a big burden to many others.
About the Artist:
Alejandro Cartagena
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b.1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Musum of Fine Arts, Houston; Portland Museum of Art, OR; West Collection, Oaks, PA; Coppel Collection and FEMSA Collection, Mexico; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; among others.
Website: alejandrocartagena.com | assembly.art
Instagram: @alexcartagenamex | @assemblyprojects
Twitter: @halecar2
