Recuerdo: Latin American Photography at the AGO
Curated by Marina Dumont-Gauthier
Art Gallery of Ontario
May 2 - October 19, 2025
Recuerdo—which in Spanish can mean both “memory” and “I remember”—presents a cross-section of art from and of Latin America. Interweaving works by foundational Latin American image-makers like Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Graciela Iturbide, artists based in the diaspora such as Rafael Goldchain, and Canadian photographers who have produced some of their defining bodies of work in the region, including Reva Brooks and Michael Mitchell, the exhibition combines both collective and personal stories as it considers photography’s role in shaping memory and identity.
This project, which grew out of Dumont-Gauthier’s research to identify works in the AGO Photography Collection that fall under the broad umbrella of “Latin American art,” asks us to consider how this category was established, and the ways in which global and local perspectives inform our understanding of it.
Rafael Goldchain, Press Lounge, Esquipulas, Guatemala, 1987. Chromogenic print, 50.8 × 61 cm. Purchase, with funds from the Photography Curatorial Committee, 2024 (2023/168). © Rafael Goldchain.
