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Gilda Mantilla featured in Getty’s “Mail Art Takes On the World”
22.01.2026
Congratulations to Gilda Mantilla on being featured in Mail Art Takes On the World, an article published by Getty.
Focusing on her series Lima, Peru (2003), the article highlights how Mantilla departs from touristic imagery to depict overlooked and desolate urban spaces. Through the circulation of images by mail, her work proposes a critical and poetic reading of the city, foregrounding absence, distance, and the materiality of exchange.
The exhibition Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s is currently on view at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside through February 15, situating Mantilla’s practice within a broader history of mail art and transnational artistic networks.
Focusing on her series Lima, Peru (2003), the article highlights how Mantilla departs from touristic imagery to depict overlooked and desolate urban spaces. Through the circulation of images by mail, her work proposes a critical and poetic reading of the city, foregrounding absence, distance, and the materiality of exchange.
The exhibition Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s is currently on view at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside through February 15, situating Mantilla’s practice within a broader history of mail art and transnational artistic networks.