“Ceiling”
Photographic installation.
2017.
Digital print on cotton paper. 50cm x 70cm each.
Edición: 5

With this work I propose a reflection on the legal situation that private art spaces and their agents face in Cuba. I underpin this assertion based on two related facts: on the one hand, the absence of a legal framework which supports this kind of spaces and the people who work in them; on the other hand, the existing permissibility or indulgence from the art institution towards them.
It is in this legal-illegal or tolerance-intolerance breach that this piece is based upon, questioning the point up to which real collaboration and interchange between the private and the institutional spaces could take place, if, beforehand, the cultural policy of the country and the law do not provide a clear regulation regarding this.
The photographs show a graffiti saying THIS IS NOT A GALLERY, that I made at all the independent art spaces in Havana that allowed me to do it. I appropriate the typography of Magritte’s “The treachery of images” to argue about the real definition and functioning of these kind of places in Cuba.