The exhibition brings together the work of Abigail Báez, Rocío Brítez, Maximiliano Cabral, Daniel Medina, Dilan Vega and Carolina Villalbawho made the sessions under the direction of the teacher Mario Franco Nunes. Through their lenses, they revive and reinterpret the story of Pedro Navajagiving visual life to a narrative full of symbolism and social criticism.
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Recall that the brilliant work Pedro Navajawhich marked a milestone in the history of salsa, will be in this way reinterpreted through images captured by students from the students of the Image Institute.
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This composition, far from being a conventional song, narrates with crudeness and poetry the story of a prostitute who, walking through a marginal neighborhood in New York, crosses a murderer. Both die after facing, while a drunk that presence the scene collects the dagger and two tickets from the ground, moving away while sings the already mythical phrase: “Life gives you surprises …”.
Rubén Blades faced resistance when recording this work, since they told him it was too extensive. His answer was overwhelming: “With that criterion, neither the Bible nor El Quijote would have been as successful as they were”. Finally, the song was recorded in The land Sound Studios and became The greatest sauce success of the 1970s.
Pedro Navaja It portrays the hidden face of “the city that never sleeps”, revealing with irony and tone of denunciation the reality of the New York alleys. The song concludes with a scathing allusion: “I like to live in America…”in a clear criticism of the American dream.
