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Mexico City Art

It’s been a long time now that I’ve lost patience with people who cringe when talking about Mexico City. All the stories I’ve ever heard about how dangerous and ugly this city is have always been told by people who’ve never actually been here. I just laugh and keep the jewel to myself.

Except, of course, for the times I go about the city with my camera.

The city’s Culture Ministry has recently placed a new art exhibit along Reforma Avenue. I’ve shot previous exhibitions of painted cows and artistic bells, but this time around, artists were commissioned to create benches with the theme of the Park Bench Conversation running through the whole series.

It’s amazing how many types of weird bench they came up with. I took over 40 shots but still didn’t capture the whole exhibit, spread out over 2 or 3 kilometers of this broad, tree-lined boulevard.

Taking in a DF Sunday Afternoon

Mexicans hardly need a reason to sit and enjoy conversation…they only need a place to do it

Some are…weird, to say the least

Middle of Reforma Avenue…and the exhibit is a hit with kids

DF Bench

DF Bench

DF Bench

Df Bench

DF Bench

Df Bench

It’s never hard to find young couples lost in conversation anywhere in Mexico City

DF Bench

This piece, meant to evoke the idea of the Electric Chair, is placed directly in front of the US Embassy, and not accidentally I believe…images of Abu Ghraib were displayed in protest in the same place two years ago

Df Bench

DF Bench

Df Bench

Three Aphorisms

  • Those of the Park Bench also play
  • The Park Bench: Paradise of the Voyeurs
  • To Know the world without rising from the Park Bench

DF Bench

1. To Wander is to learn not to stand still

2. Wandering, wandering, and for what? To sit and to watch.

DF Bench

DF Bench

DF Bench

I love these art exhibits…they never cease to show the creativity of the Mexican people, nor cease to please the people who make this city great.



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