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Mercado de Sonora

Secondary TitleSoap, "come to me"

Secondary TitleVodoo Doll

Secondary TitleCrocodile pet

Secondary TitlePerfume to open the roads of life, perfume to get money, perfume 7 aftrican powers

Secondary TitleSpiritual cleansing

Secondary TitlePig from santería sacrifice

Artist Tania Franco Klein (Mexican, born 1990)

Date2020; printed 2025

MediumInkjet prints

DimensionsImage, sheet, mount (each): 29 1/2 × 19 5/8 inches (74.93 × 49.85 cm)
Framed (each): 30 3/8 × 20 1/2 × 1 7/8 inches (77.15 × 52.07 × 4.76 cm)
Overall (installed): 29 1/2 × 117 3/4 × 1 7/8 inches (74.93 × 299.09 × 4.76 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2026.24.1-6

SignedSigned on Certificate of Authenticity

InscribedSee label for individual titles

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 1/5 + 2 APs

On View

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Terms

DescriptionGroup of six individually frame photographs presented as one work.
Images (left to right) include a blue tiled shower wall with a bar of soap, green comb, and a small book "Jabon de Ven a Mi", image of a red carpet with a large segment of dark hair, a votive candle, a voodoo doll, and a bare foot hovering above a green bowl, image of the edge of a green tufted velvet sofa with the back of a crocodile along the bottom edge of the frame, image of a square tiled floor with a woman's foot in a white ballet flat, three bottles of colored liquid with a 200 peso currency note under the green bottle, image of a woman with short dark hair facing away from the viewer as another figure holds a large egg up against the back of her head, and lastly an image of a piglet standing on top of a table covered in a red cloth.

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