Puzzles
Go back The photographic series Puzzles is part of my research on the nature of the photographic image and its documentary essence. The images of ruined buildings in Havana, New York or Cape Town are deconstructed into pieces of a puzzle with an impossible solution, where the document is revealed in fiction through the terrain […]
Photos with threads
Go back For various years now I’ve been working a series of B/W mural photographs of differentbuildings in Havana, and thread drawings that are supposed to complete them. Departingfrom some particular spots of the prints, these isometric drawings will complete thebuildings structure, the metal towers and constructions with the intention to deal with thepair imagination/ […]
Archaeological
Archaeological, 2022 B/W photograph printed on William Turner paper, graphite, walnut wood. 75.5 x 63.5 x 21.5 cm c/u Go back In the mid-1990s, I began to work combining my documentary photographs of Havana’s ruins with drawings made a posteriori, which complemented these spaces in forced decay with imaginative variations, restoration proposals and various simulacra. […]
Puzzles
Go back The photographic seriesPuzzles is part of my research on the nature of the photographicimage and its documentary essence. The images of ruined buildings in Havana, New Yorkor Cape Town are deconstructed into pieces of a puzzle with an impossible solution,where the document is revealed in fiction through the terrain of play. These Puzzles […]
Photo with threads
Go back For various years now I’ve been working a series of B/W mural photographs of differentbuildings in Havana, and thread drawings that are supposed to complete them. Departingfrom some particular spots of the prints, these isometric drawings will complete thebuildings structure, the metal towers and constructions with the intention to deal with thepair imagination/ […]
Photos on bone
Photos on bone Pigment printing on gelatin-coated bone Go back In these works, the images of the cities, of their ruins, become forms that vanish like phantasmagoria on the assembled sheets of bone, creating a tautology between support, medium and representation, which enhances the inconclusive sense of every image we perceive under a recognizable appearance […]
Any day in which Havana stopped to remember Berlin (II)
Go back Garaicoa seeks to expand the practice of the medium but, beyond that, it seems that he is trying to confer a certain materialistic consistency to the plastic and poetic derivations of the projection of desire that his work contains. The photographic would lend an anchor in the real for that painful territory of […]
Mínimo is not Minimal
W (Los trucos de Mr. S.L.), 2010 Diptych. Black and white photograph mounted and laminated on aluminum. Ink and graphite on Arches paper. 55 x 75 cm Go back