Archaeological
Archaeological, 2022 B/W photograph printed on William Turner paper, graphite, walnut wood. 75.5 x 63.5 x 21.5 cm ea. 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. In […]
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/ […]
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
To transform the political speech into deeds, finaly (II)
To transform the political speech into deeds, finaly (II), 2009 Five B/W digital photographs on metal and stucco 120 x 81 cm / 81 x 120 cm Go back These pieces speak of memory and existence, they relate to the memory of thecity and its political background. Son fotografías en blanco y negro de vallas […]
Recent News
Recent News (Spain), 2007 Diptych. B/W photographs mounted and laminated in aluminium and Plexiglas (145 x 220 cm each). 9 mm Parabellum bullets impact. Helga de Alvear Collection, Spain Go back
About the construction of the real Tower of Babel
About the construction of the real Tower of Babel Diptych. Ink drawing on vegetable fiber paper (215 x 150 cm), black and white photograph (50 x 60 cm).Colección Saul Dennison, E.U.A/ Saul Dennison Collection, U.S.A Go back These works show some of the first photographs taken in Havana in the early nineties. My diptychs of […]