Pedro Páramo
2002

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imagination of two artists: writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Joséphine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Cornala, Rulfo set his classic novel “Pedro Páramo,” a dream-like tale that intertwines a man’s quest to find his lost father and reclaim patrimony with the father’s obsessive love for a woman who wall not be possessed: Susan San Juan. Recognizing that “Rulfo was describing a world that I already knew” and feeling “a personal response, particularly to Susana San Juan and her dilemma,” Joséphine Sacabo used Rulfo’s novel as the starting point for a series of evocative photographs she calls “The Unreachable World of Susana San Juan: Homage to Juan Rulfo.”