Conversation with Flor Garduño
Flor Garduño, Autoretrato, photograph, 2006, courtesy of the artist. © Flor Garduño
FotoFest and the MFAH present a conversation in English and Spanish with renowned Mexican photographer Flor Garduño. She is joined by FotoFest co-founder Wendy Watriss and executive director Steven Evans. An interpreter is present for simultaneous translation.
The discussion explores Garduño’s extraordinary career and creative journey, highlighting her landmark 1992 FotoFest Biennial exhibition, Witnesses of Time; and her current traveling exhibition, Paths of Life, on view in Houston from March 7 to April 26 at FotoFest in Silver Street Studios. Witnesses of Time featured mythically charged photographs capturing Indigenous life across Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Paths of Life spans Garduño’s 45-year career, featuring images from her personal archive and highlighting themes of mythology, ritual, and humanity’s connection to the natural world. Garduño is represented in the MFAH collection by more than a dozen photographs.
Plan Your Visit
- This event is included with Museum admission.
- Registration with FotoFest is needed.
- The program takes place in Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building.
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Please note that registration for this event is through the FotoFest website.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the John M. O'Quinn Foundation; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.