New Architectures or a Rare Insistence on Understanding the Night
New Architectures or a Rare Insistence on Understanding the Night, 2000 Installation. Wood table, 30 x 200 x 600 cm, wire and rice paper lamps, 4 light boxes. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Collection, Madrid, Spain Go back (…) For many years I have been trying to build a model of a city. […]
City view from the Table of my House
City view from the Table of my House, 1998 Installation. Installation. Wood, glass, metal, salt, pepper, water, fish. 100 x 80 x 450 cm Private Collection, Switzerland Go back
Garden
Garden (From the series La ciudad vista desde la mesa de casa), 1998., 1998 Installation. Installation. Wooden table, grass, bonsai, monitor and VHS transferred to DVD.90 x 400 x 80 cm Go back This installation is a look at the landscape and the garden as idyllic and mythologized spaces, bearers of a certain hierarchy and […]
Four Cubans
Go back Four Cubans, 1997 Hi 8 video installation transferred to VHS.Part of “Memorias Íntimas Marcas” (1996-2008), a project on Cuba’s participation in the Angolan war. Cuatro cubanos is a work made for the “Intimate Memories: Brands” project, which sought to reflect on the war between Angola and South Africa, in which Cuban troops participated, […]
Memorias Íntimas: Marcas
Go back Memorias Íntimas Marcas explores the connections between local, individual trauma and a historical catastrophe that has left its effects felt throughout the Southern African sub-region. It focuses on the relationship between Angola and Cuba, and on the most dramatic moment of their military confrontation: the battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The images invite us […]
Japanese garden, 1997
Japanese garden, 1997 Installation. Stones, wood, japanese doors, text in vynil and color photographs (80 x 100 cm) Go back On the second day we have forgotten the essentials.On the second day we have forgotten the essentials. I belong to a defeated generation.Stone without light, at the edge of the road. A dark light subverts […]
Sloppy Joe’s Bar – dream
Sloppy Joe’s Bar – dream, 1995 Installation. Wood and tile bar painted by hand, wine, photographs, juke box, music, glasses, and shelves. Go back A formidable piece that proposes to unravel the enigma of a former Havana city bar. The “Sloppy Joes’s Bar” installation is a curious artistic-archeological work in which its author overflows its […]
About these untiring Atlantes that sustain our present day by day
About these untiring Atlantes that , 1994-1995 Diptych. Diptych. Ink drawing on vegetable fiber paper (150 x 215 cm), color photograph (50 x 60 cm) The Farber Collection, NY, USA Go back These works show some of the first photographs taken in Havana in the early nineties. My diptychs of drawings and photographs from this […]