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Mártires, 1985

Sepia Series

While photographing an idyllic fog-covered lake in the countryside, Méndez Caratini accidentally noticed a dead frog which had been ran over by a car. The artist became enchanted by the endless possibilities and visual metaphors of the existential meaning of life, liberty and death. Soon afterwards, over a period of three years, he collected several animal carcasses which later he printed as a portfolio of ten platinum prints (a 19th Century photographic process).

Ricardo Viera
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Director / Curator
Bethlehem, PA
October, 2003