Mexico, 1960.
Patricia Lagarde is a notable artist with a unique sensitivity who is inclined towards art books. She explores the earliest techniques of photography, like the ambrotype, to produce images where the viewer’s fascination with the ordinariness of the objects leads to an endearing journey through memory and its construction. The categorization, segmentation, and registration of objects are constant in her work, as well as the relationship between the object and the looking subject, always suggesting a cultural background.
Lagarde has displayed her work in galleries and museums around the world in both group and solo shows. In Mexico she has shown in spaces such as Centro de la Imagen, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Carrillo Gil, Museo de Historia Natural, Museo Álvarez Bravo, Galería Patricia Conde, Galería Ema Molina, Galería E. Romero, and CENART. Other spaces abroad where she has shown her work include: Galería Ocurrance (Montreal, Canada), Centro Cultural Lowicka (Warsaw, Poland), el Centro Cultural Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China), and CODEX International Book Fair (San Francisco, USA). Lagarde has published books and specialized magazines such as Luna Córnea, Artes de México, Casa del Tiempo, Alquimia, La Tempestad, and Espacio. She has given courses and workshops in Oaxaca at both the Museo Álvarez Bravo and at the Centro de Artes de San Agustín; in San Luis Potosí at the Centro de Artes; in Guadalajara at ITESO and in Mexico City at the Museo de Arte Moderno, at the Centro de Cultural Digital, at the Academia de San Carlos, and at “La Esmeralda”, among others.
Collections · In the United States, her photos and books are housed by collections at Stanford University Library, The Paul Getty Foundation, and The University of California at Berkeley. In Mexico, they form part of collections at Fundación Alumnos 47, Centro de Documentación MH, Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, and el Centro Universitario UAQ of Querétaro.
Awards · She has been granted various awards and distinctions: The Young Artists Award, The National System of Creators, the First Prize in "Masquelibros" Contest in Madrid, Spain, Special Prize II FUMCA Contest, Honorable Mention in Fotoseptiembre, International Artist Book Fair, first place in the category of TV, XIX Festival, and Sample of the National Network of TV and Documentary Video Naturaleza Quieta: "Polaris", TV UNAM, 2013.
Publications · Her work is published in Artists and their Books / Books and their Artists, Marcia Reed and Glenn Phillips, Getty Center (2018). She is currently working on three books: The Archives of the Moon, Lost Paradise, and This is Not an Island.
