Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui
from the series Zoo-Logos

from the series Zoo-Logos

© 1992 Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui

from the series Zoo-Logos
from the series Zoo-Logos
CultureCuban
Titles
  • from the series Zoo-Logos
Date1992
PlaceCuba
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 5/8 × 17 3/4 in. (32 × 45.1 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Clinton T. Willour in honor of Mickey Marvins
Object number94.781
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Metaphor was a vital strategy for photographers of the 1980s and
1990s to camouflage the critical messages of their images, allowing them to
elude government censorship while responding to their situations on multiple
levels. In Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui’s series Zoo-Logos,
the Havana Zoo becomes a distorted mirror of Cuban reality during the economic
crisis of the early 1990s, when essential goods like food and fuel became
scarce. The human resonance of a caged monkey, hand extended for an offering,
is palpable.





Lo metafórico fue una estrategia vital
para los fotógrafos de las décadas de 80 y 90 con la cual pudieron hacer tanto
el camuflaje de los mensajes críticos de sus imágenes, logrando así evadir la
censura gubernamental, como dar una respuesta a sus situaciónes a un nivel
plural. En la serie Zoo-Logos de Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui, el zoológico de La
Habana se convierte en un espejo distorsionado de la realidad cubana durante la
crisis económica de principios de los 90, cuando los bienes esenciales (comida
y gasolina) escasearon. La resonancia humana de un mono enjaulado es palpable
con su mano extendida para un donativo.




ProvenanceThe artist, Austin; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom right below image in pencil "EM[circular extension of M](91-92)"

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