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/ […]
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 […]
Oratorio
Oratorio, 2022 Sound installation, metal, light, industrial net, animation. Variable dimensions Go back In May 2022, I was invited to create a site site-specific Installation for Oratorio San Filippo Neri in Bologna, the exhibition was made up of various moments that intertwine with each other: on the one hand the large sculptures that resemble the […]
Soñamos en la superficie rayada de un cristal
Soñamos en la superficie rayada de un cristal, 2021 Texts engraved with sandblasting on glass mirrors Variable dimensions Go back I have always been struck by that text that appears on the rearview mirror of any car: “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”. I see this sentence as a mixture of objective […]
GOQA
GOQA, 2022 Photographs, keys, rings, metal instruments, rings, etc. Variable dimensions Go back GOQA brings together a new group of photographs taken during a research trip to Johannesburg in 2022. The title of the photographic series is Zulu slang for a special key that allows illegal entry into any house. This reference is manifested in […]
Contrapeso (Ciudad Plomada
Let Counterweight (Plumbed City), 2022 Bronze, iron, steel, nylon Go back In the universe of architecture and construction methods, the plumb line is an essential instrument that defines the verticality and balance of a house or building; at the same time, it gives us security and certainty in the face of the randomness that can […]