WARM & WET ON THE PRESENT PAST

Photographic reserch
Fine art prints, framed in partly vintage frames
Various formats, Santiago de Cuba

2015 - 2019
 

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Why and for what purpose should we photograph Cuba again? Is this exercise necessary?

 

I have seriously asked myself how to photograph a place that has been photographed in every possible way, and not only that, but has been photographed through countless external and impartial perspectives, which in turn have developed a very particular iconography that is also a biased view full of visual clichés exploited according to who took those images and for what purpose.

 

What lies beyond the Cuba of the Raúl Castros, of the woman smoking a cigar, the image of Che Guevara, and the sexualized bodies?

 

Is that even possible?

 

Why should I do a visual exercise in this place, I who know this culture so closely, I who also grew up in the Caribbean context and experienced this aesthetic from childhood?

 

A very personal visual investigation without academic or artistic expectations, in which I have allowed myself to open my perception of the world from the closest sensations and emotions that everyday life provoked in me.