Edgardo Aragón: Tesoro, 2013 (detail), series of ten tables with digital prints, 36 by 72 by 25 inches each. Courtesy Lauren Gitlen.
Oaxaca-born Edgardo Aragón’s new photo series identifies 10 Mexican families not by where they’re from or what they look like but by the beat-up jewelry that they’ve managed to cling to despite their mounting poverty and related troubles. Ten glass-topped tables display the photos in Treasure: to see each family reduced to a few starkly lit shots of tangled gold chains, chipped charm bracelets and bent rings is sobering. In a video,