2015 MCBA Prize Entries

Ioulia Akhmadeeva, “Mis Tortillas para Valentina / My tortillas for Valentina”

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The box of tortillas with traditional embroidered folder

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Open box with 5 engraving “tortillas” of handmade paper

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Open box with 5 engraving “tortillas” of handmade paper and and colophon s pages in Russian, Spanish and English

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Close up of one page inside of the box

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Close up of book

 

 
Ioulia Akhmadeeva (Morelia, Michoacana, México)
ioulia-akhmadeeva.net

Mis Tortillas para Valentina / My tortillas for Valentina
Etching on copper, drypoint engraving on acrylic, photopolymer engraving printed on handmade paper by the author with fiber pulp of “jonote tree” used to make handmade mexican paper “amate” (amatl). Text and colophon (silkscreen on amate paper) in Spanish, English and Russian. The box with serigraph text presents handmade tortillas from community Atécuaro, Michoacán, México.
Second edition, 5 pieces with 5 pages wich one
Signed and numbered by the artist.
19 cm x 3.5 cm

…Knead … and prepare my tortillas of amate for you, I printed your face in them from and to my memory…
The book is dedicated to my mother russian Valentina, who died in Mexico in 2001. It presents the five stages of her life. 5 “tortillas” pages with family s portraits and engravings by various techniques printed on handmade paper of jonote fiber. The box is wrapped in traditional embroidered folder. Tortillas is the more traditional Mexican food.