Fortuna y Fetiche by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Sofía Alazraki
Release date: May 2025
Published and distributed by Dashwood Books
First edition
Hardcover, 96 pages
Dimensions: 8.875 x 12.75 inches 



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ISBN: 978-0-9991245-4-3
Dashwood Books Item #28715

Bárbara Sánchez-Kane is still in her thirties but in the past five years has established herself as an important, original voice in contemporary art. She represented Mexico with the video and sculptural installation Pret-a-Patria at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). Her works resists the traditional notions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting or installation, all of her 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.

The series continues to explore Sánchez-Kane’s roots in fashion, where she began as a designer, and her obsession with clothing is still a central part of her 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.”  

Designed by Brooklyn based designer Alex Lin of Studio Lin the book includes an with an essay by the Mexican journalist, Guillermo Osorno. 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 ’80s underground and gay culture in Mexico City, and launched the news analysis website Horizontal.mx.

There will be a show of the same name at Dashwood Projects on view April 10th until May 24th, 2025 at our space at 63 East 4th Street betw Bowery and Second Ave in New York’s East Village comprised of 11 (16 x 20 inch) pigment prints by the two artists and one sculpture by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane.





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