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The 'Terracotta Daughters' at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli. Image by Marisa Velez, courtesy of Prune Nourry.

Prune Nourry’s ‘Terracotta Daughters’ in Mexico City

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

The 'Terracotta Daughters' at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli. Image by Marisa Velez, courtesy of Prune Nourry.
The ‘Terracotta Daughters’ at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli. Image by Marisa Velez, courtesy of Prune Nourry.
MEXICO CITY – After Shanghai, Paris, Zurich and New York, Prune Nourry’s army of girls continues its trip around the world with the final North American showing of “Terracotta Daughters,” a monumental exhibition of 108 life-size and individually crafted clay sculptures that recall China’s famous Terracotta Soldiers. Created by New York-based French artist Prune Nourry, with expert craftsmen in X’ian, this installation is a powerful investigation of the impact of gender selection in Asia and beyond.

The Museo Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli will be the army’s last stop in its grand world tour before the burial in China. The figures will be on display Oct. 30-Nov. 30

Nourry has chosen Mexico as the main stop on the international tour for its strong archeological history similarly linked to Chinese culture. The Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, where artist Diego Rivera reappropriated an ancient symbol and built a contemporary version of an Aztec pyramid to present his collection of Pre-Hispanic artifacts, immediately caught Nourry’s attention. The artist will bring her faux Chinese archeological site to Diego’s one, mixing past and new – reflecting on the links between the two cultures.

The show attracted more than 5,000 people in its recent three-week stay in New York.

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The 'Terracotta Daughters' at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli. Image by Marisa Velez, courtesy of Prune Nourry.
The ‘Terracotta Daughters’ at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli. Image by Marisa Velez, courtesy of Prune Nourry.