Carpoolers 50
Artist
Alejandro Cartagena
(Mexican, born Dominican Republic, 1977)
Date2011-2012
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 20 × 12 5/16 inches (50.8 × 31.27 cm)
Sheet: 22 × 14 1/4 inches (55.88 × 36.2 cm)
Sheet: 22 × 14 1/4 inches (55.88 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.54.6
Signednone; [See Certificate of Authenticity]
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 7/10
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage taken from above of men tightly seated in the bed of a white pick-up truck. Scattered in between them are various hand tools, buckets, and a wheelbarrow. Three of the men read the magazines. A man wearing a red shirt rests him arm outside the passenger window.Gallery LabelFor one year, Alejandro Cartagena photographed construction workers riding in the back of pickup trucks from their homes near Monterrey, Mexico, to their jobs in San Pedro, Mexico. The commute averages between 45 and 90 minutes each way. Looking down from an overpass, Cartagena made bird’s eye views of the trucks that carried men as they sat or slept amid their equipment. The workers, who lived in new suburban developments far from public transportation, relied on these daily carpools. Cartagena saw in these men a willingness “to do whatever it takes to own a house but still go to the city, where there is work.”
Purchased from Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Alejandro Cartagena
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