Mr & Dr
Mariela Sancari and Adolfo Cordova
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Wednesday to Friday
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4pm–7pm
Saturday
10am–1pm
Mr. & Dr. is a photobook aimed for children and youngsters that explores the notion of the unknown through images and text.
This photobook is an appropriation of a classic horror story, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson that challenges the overriding illustrative relation between text and images in books for children.
Photographs are unexpected, dark, ambiguous and create a vague yet fraught relation with the words that rejects fixed definitions.
The main character faces a dilemma, a duality that is articulated in the two part structure of the book: text, divided into two distinct voices. A third-person narrator in the first part and the first-person confession of Dr. Jekyll at the end; and pictures that cast a doubt over their meaning, defying the conventions of what is suitable for children.
Mr. & Dr. is a journey, through words and images, to the unimaginable, to what we do not understand and consequently, we fear.
Mariela Sancari
Mariela Sancari was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976. She lives and works in Mexico City since 1997. Her work revolves around identity and memory and the way both are mingled and affectedby each other. She examines the thin and elusive line dividing memories and fiction. She has received numerous awards for her work.
Her first book Moisés was selected by several curators and reviewers, such as Sean O'Hagan, Tim Clark, Erik Kessels, Jörg Colberg, Larissa Leclair, Yumi Goto and ColinPantall, among others, as one of the Best Photobooks published in 2015.
Adolfo Cordova
Adolfo Córdova (Veracruz, Ver., 1983). Journalist, writer, and reading mediator. He holds a master’s degree in Children’s and Young Adult Literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators. He has published 15 books that have received various awards and have been translated into eight languages. In addition to reading and writing, he loves riding his bicycle, dancing with his partner, talking with girls, boys, and young people, and posting on his blog: linternasybosques.com.
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