Alejandra Laviada Magenta, 2014 Pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper 42 h x 35 w in 106.68h x 88.90w cm Edition 4/5 + 2 AP
BAC K I N F O C US LaCa Projects reopens with a collaborative new exhibition—In Focus/Enfoque —showcasing some of the finest contemporary Mexican photographers and addressing a wide array of themes, including gender, activism, and identity. by COREY MILLER photos courtesy LACA PROJECTS After a torturous hiatus, Latin American Contemporary Art Projects is finally reopening, and not without some fanfare. When the Charlotte home of LaCa Projects welcomes visitors once again this fall, it will do so as part of an ambitious, multi-institution collaboration featuring contemporary Mexican photography. Oh, and it’ll have a café. LaCa joins The Light Factory, The Mint Museum, The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, The McColl
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Center for Art + Innovation, SOCO Gallery, and the New Gallery of Modern Art in an exhibition initiative that will expose the work of more than 50 contemporary photographers from Mexico and the United States. This collaboration, dubbed In Focus/ Enfoque, will address a wide array of themes, including gender, activism, identity, globalism, and borders—a mass of contemporary art in dialogue with the Queen City.