Mexico, 1973.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
José Luis Cuevas
Archival Pigment Print
2020
165 x 110 cm. &
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
Archival Pigment Print
2020
110 x 165 cm. &
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
Archival Pigment Print
2020
165 x 110 cm. &
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 6 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2009 - 2014
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment prin
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2014- 2016
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
Observations on the resistance (2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space. Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished. Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2014- 2016
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
Observations on the resistance (2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space. Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished. Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2014- 2016
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
Observations on the resistance(2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space. Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished. Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2014- 2016
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
Observations on the resistance (2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space. Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished. Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2014- 2016
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
Observations on the resistance (2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space. Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished. Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2002 - 2007
Ed. of 1 Vintage
Gelatin silver print
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2002 - 2007
Ed. of 1 Vintage
Gelatin silver print
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2002 - 2007
Ed. of 1 Vintage
Gelatin silver print
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
2002 - 2007
Ed. of 1 Vintage
Gelatin silver print
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
José Luis Cuevas
Mexico, 1973.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Since 2000 Jose Luis Cuevas has developed a strong photographic body of works, with roots in documentary, yet produced and showed inside the art world. Cuevas’ image-concepts are structured upon personal questions and reflexions about his reality, as well as in other artistic disciplines including literature and cinema.
In October 2017, José Luis Cuevas will show his first individual show at Centro de la Imagen of the Ministry of Culture, the Mexican Museum of Photography, curated by its Director, Itala Schmelz. Cuevas was included in the British Journal of Photography’s Talent Issue as an “Ones to watch” in 2016 and also among the “Five Mexican photographers you have to know” according Hunger Magazine. The Time Magazine British edition included him in 2015 as one of the Mexican photographers you have to follow.
His name appears in each anthology and revision of the state of the art of photography in Mexico and in Latin America. Cuevas was part of “Detonar y Develar. Fotografía en México, ca. 2015” presented by Centro Nacional de las Artes y Fundación Televisa. Awarded with international prizes including Voies Off Festival 2012, Arles, France; Sony World Photography Awards 2010 second price; among many others. José Luis Cuevas is Member of the National System of Creators of the Mexican Ministry of Culture’s National Culture and Arts Endowment, which is one of the most important acknowledgements given by Mexican Government, from 2009 to 20016.
By the end of 2016, his book New Era was published by the preeminent photography editorial house RM Spain.
Available works:
New Era (2009-14) suggests a fiction about a world where man passes spiritually taciturn ways in which predominates despair with the desire for liberation and transcendence. The series evokes the malaise of a society in which man is constantly faced with his own evil and overcomes their fears. The images evoke the metaphor of the spiral that renews what withers and blooms again and again, before a symbolic -and distant, quasi-futurist rebirth of man.
Observations on the resistance (2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space.
Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished.
Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.