Citas y encuentros is an exhibition that invites a thorough review and critical rereading that spans more than four decades of creativity by the Mexican photographer Flor Garduño. It is a count of unedited, unpublished photos, and most of them were recently created. Distinguished for her talent, poetics, and rigor in the craft of photography, Flor stands out beyond awards, publications, and distinctions for her way of inviting the public to appreciate her compositions and for the way of expressing, through photography, layers of realities not always perceptible to the record of what we see. This selection of photographs includes three printing techniques masterfully mastered by Flor Garduño: charcoal giclée, platinum/palladium, and, as a novelty, black and white color.

Her images are a mirror that projects her, while they always reflect us when we delve into their interpretation or appreciation. We discover in them contexts that surround and shape us, but, at the same time, our inner world is revealed with great subtlety in segments of our universality. Myths, symbols, rites, fantasies, and snapshots become, under his gaze, a visual poetry that unfolds like a filigree of textures, lights, shadows, and figures distributed to accentuate or suggest various intensities in fiction or realities. This work reveals in Flor Garduño one of her most outstanding photography qualities. In these images, an interaction is activated between those of us who stop to resize the sensitivity and craft of an artist whose dedication always leads us to a rigorous appreciation of photography.

With solid training during the second half of the seventies at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, her experience and empathy with Kati Horna, her collaborations with Mariana Yampolsky, in addition to having been Manuel Álvarez Bravo's assistant in the darkroom, without leaving aside her journeys and dialogues with colleagues in the world; Flor Garduño has been able to imprint her originality on the art of photography.

Ery Camara

Flor Garduño, Bella, México, 1987.