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title: "AkademieGalerie: Greetings from Tepito"
date: 2017-02-16
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# AkademieGalerie: Greetings from Tepito

![AkademieGalerie: Greetings from Tepito](https://www.adbk.de/images/stories/aktuell/2017/02/Tepito%2C%20Mexico%20City%20-%20Es%20gibt%20ein%20Leben%20jenseits%20der%20Klischees%20in%20Tepito%20-%20ein%20Eindruck%20der%20Geburtstagsfeier%20des%20dreija%CC%88hrigen%20Sohnes%20von%20Mayra-ganz.jpg)

**Touristification of urban poverty and the struggle of representation**

 **Ausstellung von Cordula de Bloeme in der AkademieGalerie**

 **Eröffnung** DO 16.02.17 | 18:00 Uhr

 **Ausstellung** 17.02. - 24.02.17

 **Öffnungszeiten** FR-SO 17. - 19.02. 14:00 - 18:00 Uhr |

 MI - FR 22. - 24.02. 16:00 - 20:00 Uhr

  

 Just a stone`s throw from the so called Zocalo, the Placa de la Constitución, which is the main central square of Mexico City, is Tepito, a historic, notorious city district that can be visited as a tourist attraction. With Alfonso`s "Tepito Safari" strangers are guided safely through the borough, that they would not dare to enter by themselves.

 The commercialization of Tepito as a tourist product is strongly associated with its negative reputation and its visual representation and the way, they influence each other. Still there is a certain pride among the Tepiteños, the inhabitants of Tepito, or even a collective identity, that seems to defy poverty and the negative image.