Dulce Pinzon: The Real Story of the Superheroes

Dulce Pinzon: The Real Story of the Superheroes

Dulce Pinzón: The Real Story of the Superheroes is an exhibition of photographs by Dulce Pinzón, an artist born in Mexico City. In 1995 Pinzón moved to the United States to pursue her passion for photography. In New York City she experienced what it meant to be an immigrant and how hard it was to try to assimilate into American life and society. In 2004 she started this series of photographs illustrating the realities of Latino immigrant life in the United States. The series portrays real people going about their daily jobs, which are necessary and important, but often invisible or unacknowledged for their importance to society. It is the invisibility of these functions and those who perform them that has been the subject of her work and art.

Pinzón describes herself and her work as follows:

"I am a photographer working on a series of satirical documentary-style photographs featuring ordinary men and women in their work environments in New York. They are immigrants donning superhero garb, with the objective of raising questions about our definition of heroism after 9/11, and our ignorance of the workforce that fuels our ever-consuming economy. Immigrants have always been the new blood that injects vitality into a city, but the process of accepting these newcomers into everyday life takes time. I believe that by introducing them in a creative and positive way, I can elevate
respect for and awareness of the contributions of immigrant labor to the daily lives of us all. Most of us often go through our day-to-day lives in ignorance or denial of the sacrifices that are made by others to enrich and ensure our way of living. This is a tribute to those brave and determined men and women who somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural powers, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper."

Dulce Pinzón: The Real Story of the Superheroes was organized by Twig Johnson, Curator of Native American Art, and proposed by Alyshia Gálvez, Assistant Professor of Lehman College/City University of New York. This exhibition was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

All Museum programs are made possible, in part, by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and Museum members.