Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West will be the next stop for Vaqueros de la Cruz del Diablo,a major traveling exhibition for photographer Werner Segarra. The exhibition, which is coming from the Briscoe Western Art Museum, opens at the Arizona museum on June 19.
Rancho “Monte Alegre.” En la puerta del arroyo. Wero y Vini Durazo Duarte. Huásabas, 2013, photograph
Drawing from two decades’ worth of intimate observation of Northern Mexico’s famous vaqueros, the exhibition will highlight Segarra’s images as they shine light onto the realities of the working cowboys in Mexico.
“La Cruz del Diablo, the Devil’s Cross, is a part of the landscape that frames the ordinary life of local vaqueros, revealing complex stories,” the museum notes. “The lens of this photographer interweaves families, traditions, cultures, beliefs and nature, always pointing to the texture of time and the joys and difficulties of life. Each photograph represents not so much a moment but a life cycle; each of them contains a story that comes to clarity through Segarra’s work. Images speak of closeness to place, people, reasons why he always returns with curiosity and love to a lifestyle that seems to be disappearing.”
Rancho “Bamochi” en que Quicho Durazo, Huachinera, 2011, photograph
Images include scenes of horses and cattle, but also more intimate scenes of vaqueros and their families passing the time in their homes. The series explores the daily lives of the populations of Huásabas, Bavispe, Jécori, La Iglesia, Sahuaripa and all the intermediate villages nestled in the mountains of Mexico’s Sierra Madre de Sonora.
En que Chente Dorame, Hueverachi, Huásabas, 2013, photograph
The exhibition will be on view through February 25, 2024. Visit www.scottsdalemuseumwest.org for more information. —
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