Among thorns…
Among thorns….., 2025 Acacia thorns, oak and linden stems, balsa wood, metal Variable dimensions Go back Entre espinas… draws from that duality present in almost all my work, where fragility and contained violence in the contemporary City are “portrayed” while simultaneously unfolding into their opposite. Like a bramble that blocks the way and imposes contemplation […]
Chrystallography
Chrystallography Go back Chrystallography Crystallography arises from found objects: some pieces of cardboard, wood and iron, which the artist bought in an antique store in Munich. They are very old models (Austria, ca. 1900), which were used in teaching to exemplify the formation of crystals. Garaicoa places them on a plinth designed specifically in each […]
From the Series π =3,1416
From the Series π =3,1416 Go back This series stems from the desire to return to painting on wood, an exercise I have beendoing since 2019, when I first presented the installation Paisajes de trabajo / WorkingLandscapes in Brazil. The result is a group of geometric associations whose volumes andCartesian profiles allude once again to […]
All Utopia Goes Through the Belly
All Utopia Goes Through the Belly, 2008-2024 Glass, wood, acrylic, PVC, foodstuffs, carbon, stones Variable dimensions Go back All Utopia Goes Through the Belly is an installation I have been working on since 2008. It is a large set of glass jars in which wooden models of imaginary buildings, stones of various kinds, and food […]
Familia
Familia, 2023 Installation. Paper, metal, wood, MDF, glass, plastic, sound Variable dimensions Go back Familia tells a personal and intimate story of my grandparents’ exile from Ecuador to Cuba in the 30’s and of my own personal exile to Spain 15 years ago. The work starts with a portrait of the four members of my […]
From the series Lo viejo y lo nuevo
Go back Lo viejo y lo nuevo is an installation that departed from finding an old XIX century French etching portfolio in Havana. The portfolio depicted many gardens structures, such as gazebos and animal shelters. I decided to intervene those images but cutting them using a technique similar to the one used in my pop-up […]
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/ […]