Reference code
GB 359 SLG-SLI-2002-4
Title
20 Million Mexicans Can't be Wrong
Date(s)
- 2002 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
160 colour 35mm slides
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(1868 to present)
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Scope and content
Photographs of the group exhibition '20 Million Mexicans Can't be Wrong' which was held at the South London Gallery from 18 September to 3 November 2002, and curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina. The photographs also include installations at the John Hansard Gallery.
'20 Million Mexicans Can't be Wrong' included works by Francis Alÿs, Carlos Amorales, Teresea Margolles, Vincente Razo, Pedro Reyes, Santiago Sierra, Melanie Smith. All the artists in the show were either Mexican or lived in Mexico City. The exhibition brought together new and recent works which explored the social and political tensions in Mexico City, and the presence and conditions of production of ‘art’ within that context.
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Conditions governing reproduction
The images in this catalogue are for your own personal non-commercial use only. All images are copyright of the artist or artists whose work is shown in the image (or their estate), and the photographer.