As a child growing up in Argentina, Alessandra Sanguinetti came under the spell of illustrated books, from classics by Dorothea Lange to Time Life compendiums. When she began to make pictures, a curiosity about life in rural communities and how people connected to the land drove her vision. These projects led to a tender and ambitious chronicle of the evolving relationship of two young girls through adolescence and into young adulthood. Sanguinetti recently published (2022), a disquieting gothic set, Michael Lesy’s macabre cult classic of nineteenth-century archival excavation. Sanguinetti’s riff may be contemporary, but it’s just as eerie.
