Marginalia 7
Iñaki Bonillas
Mexican, born 1981
2019
An inkjet print in which Bonillas assembles found and archival photographs into a stepped, collage-like border around a deep black center, probing how peripheral images accumulate meaning.
A vast, velvety black field is interrupted by a zigzag ribbon of small sepia and black-and-white photographic fragments—sculpted heads, object details and architectural bits—that read like marginal notes circling an empty middle.
By treating discarded and archival photographs as marginalia, the piece joins a lineage of photographic montage and appropriation that interrogates how archives, collectors, and museums shape memory, authorship, and cultural value.
Medium
Inkjet print
Dimensions
50 13/16 × 43 5/16" (129 × 110 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired with support from the Committee on Photography Fund and the Latin American and Caribbean Fund
Accession
535.2022
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