Photographer and visual anthropologist Alinka Echeverria on her exhibition The Road to Tepeyac at the EB&Flow Gallery, London (24 May-28 June 2012) talking about: the moment of the spiritual conquest of Mexico; the syncretism of the Aztec belief in Tonatzin and the Virgen de Guadloupe; how the pilgrims have a relationship with the Virgen de Guadaloupe; what she represents; and how the pilgrims carry her image to the sacred shrine in the mountains
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August 19, 2012