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    Sonia Madrigal

    Sep 10, 2019 2 minutes
    Yxta Maya Murray

    onia Madrigal’s galvanizing photographs of Mexican residents leaping over a concrete retaining wall of the Chalco–Ixtapaluca expressway recall the tales of desperate treks that repeat through myth and history. In her seventy-one-image series (The advance, State of Mexico, 2018), she reveals men and women hurtling themselves over this barrier

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