About Freedom
Group Collection
Curated by Pedro Meyer


Freedom - of course, this term means so many different things to so many different people around the world.

For some, freedom is simply being able to have shelter or something to eat, not to mention being free from disease.

For others, freedom means having the opportunity to be creative. For some, it means having freedom from economic burdens.

For others, freedom is sought from oppressive governments. For others, from oppressive marriages.

For many, it is about the freedom to have gainful employment, and then for others it is being able to dream and fly off into distant worlds.

To be free from nightmares, or to be free to pursue your sexuality.

In the end, freedom means so many things to so many different people around the globe that we will never be able to come up with one single definition of what freedom stands for.

This exhibition, started out with the premise of free choice for each artist to express their understanding of freedom according to his or her own imagination. There is no Mexican point-of-view for the word freedom in this collection, other than the fact that all the photographers are from Mexico.

If anything, our choices and ideas about freedom are in reality as varied as the diversity of notions expressed in the word itself.

Rather than propose a detailed explanation of what the photographer intended to show in each photograph, we thought that the best option would be to leave individual interpretations up to each individual person looking at the image.

You can be sure that there is no wrong or right way to interpret these pictures. After all, who is to say that your interpretation - even if at variance with what the author intended - is not as valid as that of the author?

All that matters is that you see yourself represented in these images, with your own ideas of freedom.

Pedro Meyer
Mexico City
December 2008.