Presumptuous Guests/Invitados Presuntuosos (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

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Presumptuous Guests/Invitados Presuntuosos (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Artist Tom Chambers (American, born 1957)

Date2010 (printed 2011)

Mediumpigment print

DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (20.2 × 20.2 cm)
Support: 13 3/4 × 11 in. (34.9 × 27.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2012

Object number2012.15.6

DescriptionThe image is of an interior scene with a side table dominating the center. There are several clear glass vases of various shapes and sizes sitting on top of the table. Two rather large iguanas are featured at the lower center of the image while staring down a visibly uncomfortable young woman in a white dress at the right. The background features the lower half of a female figure in a black and white flowing skirt standing in a shadowed doorway.
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Emuseum Notes

The artist traveled extensively in Mexico twenty-five years ago and was attracted to the “sense of spirituality and magic” he experienced there. Upon returning in 2010, he found it much changed by global consumerism and made this body of work to express his appreciation for the Mexican culture he had encountered earlier and his concern over its apparent eclipse. His style in these images draws on the literary model of Magical Realism in which fantastical elements are mixed with recognizable everyday elements.

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