Federico Martínez, from the State of Puebla works as a taxi driver in New York. He sends 250 dollars a week. From the series, The Real Story of the Superheroes
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Dulce Pinzón
(Mexico City, 1974—Brooklyn, New York; Mexico City; and Montreal, Canada, present)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Place MadeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Date2005-2010
MediumColor photograph
Dimensions40 x 30 1/2 in.
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gilberto Cárdenas Collection, Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores Garcia, 2023.74
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Collection AreaLatin American Art
Object number2023.74
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Dulce Pinzón has developed a binational artistic practice that looks at immigration from both cultural and economic perspectives. In her Superhero series she depicts undocumented migrant workers living and working across New York. They collaborated in their portraits by dressing up as characters from Marvel and DC Comics, symbolizing their daily struggles and challenging work.
Pinzón affirmed that the “principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper.” Like many immigrants, each of these heroes sends home remedios, remittance money that supports family living in Mexico.
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