In this piece, Diego Berruecos gathers all of the obituaries that were published on the occasion of the death of Monica Pretelini in 2007. At that time, Pretelini was the wife of Enrique Peña Nieto, governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011, and future president of Mexico (from 2012 to 2018).
Displayed across a space, which at first glance might seem like a show of immeasurable solidarity that quickly reveals itself as a map of power that includes the most influential business groups in the country, multinational consortia, politicians at all levels (senators, deputies, governors), and mass media. Since 2007, the year of Petrelini's death, some journalists have drawn attention to the unusual number of obituaries that were generated by the death of the wife of the then governor of the State of Mexico.
Created in 2010, this piece documents the construction of a rising political power, a process that culminated in 2012 with the arrival of Enrique Peña Nieto to the presidency of Mexico - five years after the death of his first wife. In this work, the presumed solidarity is revealed as a framework that the artist captures and that we can see, paradoxically, by an event marked by loss and absence.
This piece is part of PRI: Genealogía de un partido (Genealogy of a Party), a project developed by Berruecos since 2008 that gives an , from archive images, photographs, and documents, of the visual strategies, rhetoric, and imprints of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) in Mexico. This investigation has resulted in a collection of pieces that function as a visual memory of the exercise of power in this country.
In this piece, Diego Berruecos gathers all of the obituaries that were published on the occasion of the death of Monica Pretelini in 2007. At that time, Pretelini was the wife of Enrique Peña Nieto, governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011, and future president of Mexico (from 2012 to 2018).
