The Italian photographer Tina Modotti holds an important place in the international panorama of experimental photography during the first half of the 20th century.

After having emigrated from Udine to California at the age of 17, she took her first steps as an artist in the world of cinema and, thanks to her encounter with Edward Weston, she learned the fundamentals of photographic techniques which she would develop independently throughout the decade 1920-1930, revealing her extraordinary talent.

In 1923 she moved to Mexico City with Weston. Here she specializes in the representation of diversity and poverty that she always describes with truthfulness and spontaneity. In her photos, she represented the Mexican world and vernacular culture with the sensitivity and freedom that is uniquely proper to those who have lived "beyond the boundaries" personally.

Together with other great American and Mexican protagonists of contemporary art and photography - such as Dorothea Lange, Lee Miller Penrose, Imogen Cunningham, Tina Modotti is considered a visionary artist who stood out as a passionate, independent, and exemplary artist for her time and for the generations to come.

Today, Tina Modotti is considered to be a cultural icon, like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Diane Arbus and many other artists her age. She has finally been vindicated and recognized in the history of art and by contemporary criticism.

Dominique Lora, curator of “Tina Modotti. Here and Now” together with Yair Barak, leads us to the discovery of the Italian photographer on the occasion of the photo-exhibition hosted at Artspace in Tel Aviv in July 2023 with the aim of deepening one of the protagonists of the artistic and poetic experiments that characterized the first avant-gardes of the 20th century.