Inhabited

In INHABITED nine contemporary Cuban artists, working in painting, installation, photography, and video, aim to show the relationship of the visual arts with what we inhabit and with what we do not inhabit. Each of them is moved by a concern, quite common within the Cuban arts: the problem of emptiness, of nothingness, of absence, loneliness and ruin, – all coming together in a voice that contradicts itself saying that what is habitable is, at the same time, that what uninhabits us. In INHABITED the ruined physical space is represented as a moment of deep pain. Likewise, the motives of “nothing” or “emptiness” is recurrent in Cuban visual arts, and seeks to activate in the viewer the recognition of a national reality that swallows and suffocates them. INHABITED also speaks of departure and absence, of everything that generates the weight of a reality that dislocates. Cuba today is experiencing the largest exodus its history has ever known. This generates an enormous void, a nothingness that finds “space” within the reality of an empty country, a city, a house or a room, and that is reflected in the works of the artists who gather in INHABITED.

This is a group exhibition of Alejandro Alonso, Alejandro Campins, Laura Carralero, Osvaldo González, Luis E. López-Chávez, José M. Mesías, Linet Sánchez, Ezequiel O. Suárez, Infraestudio, curated by Liatna Rodriguez.

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