Lake Verea: Modern Barragán
Over nearly two decades, contemporary Mexican photographer duo Lake Verea — Francisca Rivero-Lake Cortina and Carla Verea Hernández — made repeated pilgrimages to the Mexico City home of architect Luis Barragán (1902–88), one of the twentieth century's most quietly radical voices in modernist architecture. They sat in his chairs, opened his closets, kissed in his garden. The photographs that emerged from these visits capture the house across shifting atmospheric conditions — daylight, moonlight, streetlight, storm — with flash photography lending certain images a spectral quality and aluminum-rubbed walls revealing hidden textures beneath the surface.
A reverent, intimate, and entirely singular archive. A spiritual sequel to the duo's earlier photobook on Anni and Josef Albers, also published by Hatje Cantz.
