“[Rosario, Cristina y Liza,] is a photograph [from] the series Cerco Blanco [White Fence,] in which Iturbide chose to document the Chicano community of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles. Iturbide was able to live with and shadow a group of women [In] the community… detailing their activities. The image pictures Rosario, Lisa, and Cristina as members of the White Fence gang, whose origins date from the 1920s and refers to the fence surrounding La Purisima Catholic Church. The black and white print portrays and immortalizes their young expressions and their moussed hairstyles, thin eyebrows, heavy delineated eyes, deep red lips…white tops, [and] dark dickie or baggy pants which defined the chola….fashion style in the 1980s. As a close-up take, Iturbide privileges their secret hand signs. Shot while the women stood in front of a mural with portraits of Benito Juárez, Emiliano Zapata, and Pancho Villa, she asked them to identify the figures. They could not, despite a Chicano longing nostalgia for all things Mexican. To Iturbide this signaled a subculture of double marginalization—not Mexican enough, yet existing on the fringes of a mainstream U.S. culture. But just as they did not know, the viewer is similarly confronted with not knowing that these seemingly menacing signs are those of women who are also mute and deaf trying to communicate.”
- ART OF THE AMERICAS
https://www.oas.org/artsoftheamericas/graciela-iturbideAll works are $8,000.