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This work is a search for answers to the secrets and meanings enclosed within women's bodies. A young artist in search of answers to the secrets and meanings enclosed within women's bodies - issues of inequality, transgression, religion, virginity, maternity, age and desire - sets out alone to find the truth. Goded's wanderings took her into the heart of downtown Mexico City, the dark alleyways behind the National Palace in a quarter called La Merced. Life in the tenements (vecindades) and hotels, trade, the close contact with thieves and homeless children, drug-trafficking andthe religious devotion manifest in its temples and churches define the character of this neighbourhood that, for more than four centuries, has been a privileged space for prostitution. Viewers see the face of the Magdalene in these fleshy, soulful, life-filled, lusty pictures and in the fascinating interviews that accompany them.

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Maya Goded has been awarded the Mother Jones Foundation award as well as won first place in the Mexico at a Crossroads photographic competition. She has also had her work exhibited throughout the world. She is also the author of Blink, published in the UK by Phaidon.

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