Morbid Anatomy Presents at Observatory: "Cuerpo Presente: Mourning and Cultural Representations of Death in Mexico" Friday June 26th, 7:30 PM

Morbid Anatomy Presents at Observatory:
'Cuerpo Presente': Mourning and Cultural Representations of Death in Mexico, Featuring a Collection of Postmortem Photographs from Rural Mexico
Presented by Salvador Olguin
Friday June 26th
7:30 PM
Free

This illustrated lecture will present a series of postmortem photographs taken between the 1930’s and the 1950’s, when the tradition of celebrating a person’s departure with a last picture was very much alive in small towns and villages in Mexico. A brief journey through some of Mexico’s cultural and artistic ways of celebrating death will provide the frame and background for a better understanding of these images.

Presenter Salvador Olguin holds a MA in Humanistic Studies, and is currently performing research on the subject of the body and its representations at New York University. He is primarily interested in studying cultural artifacts that depict the body in non-normative, unusual ways. He was born in Monterrey, Mexico and currently resides in Brooklyn.

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Enter Observatory via Proteus Gowanus Gallery
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