Michel Pellanders: Mexico

Michel Pellanders: Mexico at the IISG's Platform for Photography. "...The photos show how Michel Pellanders' experience of Mexico in 1982 and 1983. Through them, a different Mexico emerges: it is raining in some, and it is not only because they are in black and white that the image is gloomy. The photos are very different from the clichés of Mexico: sombrero - mañana - fiesta. It is the poor Mexico on the eve of the liberalization. It is a land where, at that time, the old solutions of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, the party that had already reigned for nearly 60 years, no longer work. There is corruption, and state enterprises waste their subsidies. De la Madrid is the president who began liberalization and privitization, a road that has changed Mexico considerably, but has not been able to make social problems disappear. The Mexico of 1982/83 no longer exists, but we can see a glimmer of it in the strong personal vision of Michel Pellanders."