A conversation between Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Sofía Alazraki, moderated by Guillermo Osorno.
The book Fortuna y Fetiche by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Sofía Alazraki accompanied the exhibition presented at Dashwood Projects in New York in April 2025. Designed by Brooklyn based designer Alex Lin of Studio Lin, the publication includes an essay by the journalist Guillermo Osorno.
About the project
The collaboration between Sánchez-Kane and Alazraki began as an exchange of letters between two friends. These were love letters in strange formats—pieces of fabric and objects—like throwing a dart back and forth across the world. What began as a playful, intuitive, and fun exchange slowly evolved into something deeper, until they found a shared point of connection between their two practices, which, though distinct, inhabit a common territory: the mechanism of fashion.
The series continues to explore Sánchez-Kane’s roots in fashion, where he began as a designer, and his obsession with clothing is still a central part of his artistic practice. As Sánchez-Kane says "I like the possibilities of exploration… for Sofía and me, using these objects, was exciting. My job was just putting them together in an orgy."
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Bárbara Sánchez-Kane in the past five years has established himself as an important, original voice in contemporary art. His works resists the traditional notions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting or installation, all of his works present the anxieties and fears of daily life to question pleasure and domination within a hegemonic masculine society.
Sofía Alazraki is a photographer and set designer working across art, fashion, and film. Formed as an art historian, her practice focuses on still life photography and installation, where she builds carefully choreographed assemblages with objects and unconscious mechanisms as active characters. Her work investigates how desire is projected onto objects and shaped within systems of consumption and representation, unfolding as a multiplicity of symbolic and affective layers.
Guillermo Osorno is an editor, media entrepreneur, and journalist living in Mexico City. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s journalism program and was editor in chief of the Latin American narrative journalism magazine, Gatopardo. Recently, he published Tengo que morir todas las noches, a story of the 80s underground and gay culture in Mexico City, and launched the news analysis website Horizontal.mx.
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thursday, august 28, 6 pm
kurimanzutto mexico city
free admission
purchase the book at kurimanzutto libros
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+ about Fortuna y Fetiche at Dashwood Projects
