Nuestra señora de las iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas)

Graciela Iturbide, artist

born 1942

Nuestra señora de las iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), 1979

Where object was made: Mexico

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 29.8 x 23.8 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Terry and Sam Evans Fund

Accession number: 1997.0053

On display: Marshall Balcony

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Graciela Iturbide was drawn to visit Juchitán, Mexico, and learn from the city’s Indigenous Zapotec community because of their markets where women control local commerce. Influenced by Iturbide’s Catholic roots, this poetic portrait casts Zobeida Díaz as a Madonna donning an iguana halo and enshrined in an archway. The Zapotec people incorporated the image into their own cultural context, naming it “The Juchitán Medusa.”