Video / Video-installation

Anagram

Media: Video.
Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video.
Duration: 6.35min.
Date: 2012
Edition amount: 3

“Anagram” shows a blind man formally describing ordinary objects according to their shapes, m. The artwork tries to make a reflection about what we consider real, from his specific position as a blind person, whose life sense experience is different. This reflection from the language standpoint questions subjective notions we have about the truth of things.

Media: Video.
Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video.
Duration: 6.35min.
Date: 2012
Edition amount: 3

“Anagram” shows a blind man formally describing ordinary objects according to their shapes, m. The artwork tries to make a reflection about what we consider real, from his specific position as a blind person, whose life sense experience is different. This reflection from the language standpoint questions subjective notions we have about the truth of things.

New Man

Media: Video

Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video/16mm Digitized film

Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.

Duration: 3.37 min

Date: 2019.

Edition amount: 3

This short film explores the complex dynamics of contemporary Cuban society through a thought-provoking conversation initiated by a group of Cuban teenagers. Delving into the intricacies of the success paradigm and its prevailing patterns —such as the reggaeton culture and its language— the film prompts reflection on the societal norms and expectations shaping the references and aspirations of the young generations in Cuba today.

Media: Video

Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video/16mm Digitized film

Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.

Duration: 3.37 min

Date: 2019.

Edition amount: 3

This short film explores the complex dynamics of contemporary Cuban society through a thought-provoking conversation initiated by a group of Cuban teenagers. Delving into the intricacies of the success paradigm and its prevailing patterns —such as the reggaeton culture and its language— the film prompts reflection on the societal norms and expectations shaping the references and aspirations of the young generations in Cuba today.

Little Bread and Poor Circuses

Media: Video.

Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video in loop displayed in a small screen.

Duration: 8.22 min

Date: 2011

Edition amount: 3

This video shows an almost inert image of a female character waiting for something that does not occur. The boring sensation and the waiting of the character try to generate calm and contemplation from the audience. This calm, is upset when it starts to snow.

The snow effect is presented as a contradiction, in a kind of surrealistic way, because it does not fit with the weather conditions depicted on the image. This responds to my interest in alluding, not to real snow, but to “wishing” snow, as a symbol of internal wishes of change that do not materialize in reality. The title of the piece intends to particularize the concern that motivates the creation of this work. 

Media: Video.

Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video in loop displayed in a small screen.

Duration: 8.22 min

Date: 2011

Edition amount: 3

This video shows an almost inert image of a female character waiting for something that does not occur. The boring sensation and the waiting of the character try to generate calm and contemplation from the audience. This calm, is upset when it starts to snow.

The snow effect is presented as a contradiction, in a kind of surrealistic way, because it does not fit with the weather conditions depicted on the image. This responds to my interest in alluding, not to real snow, but to “wishing” snow, as a symbol of internal wishes of change that do not materialize in reality. The title of the piece intends to particularize the concern that motivates the creation of this work. 

Genealogy of the Metaphor

Media: Video-installation-action.

Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video, postcards, wooden shelves.

Dimensions: Variable // 34.24 min, loop

Date: 2017.

Edition Amount: 3 + artist proof.

This artwork is based on the creation of a genealogical tree, including the closest members of my family in Cuba, in order to compile each one of their impressions regarding this term. From that structure the spectator is faced with a proposal: to establish a communication link with some of my family members, using as a support, some available postcards allegoric to the City of Yuma and Yuma County, in Arizona, United States.

I intend to generate a reflection about lexicon and the load that the spoken language has in the construction of meanings, in a specific context. I focus in the scope of the word Yuma, in Cubans´ popular culture. This common expression acts as a metaphoric filter which transcends the only fact of designating or naming, and works as a personal mental image, tinged by the experience of each person in relation to politics, homeland, culture, emigration, success, language, family…

Media: Video-installation-action.

Materials/Technique: Mono-channel video, postcards, wooden shelves.

Dimensions: Variable // 34.24 min, loop

Date: 2017.

Edition Amount: 3 + artist proof.

This artwork is based on the creation of a genealogical tree, including the closest members of my family in Cuba, in order to compile each one of their impressions regarding this term. From that structure the spectator is faced with a proposal: to establish a communication link with some of my family members, using as a support, some available postcards allegoric to the City of Yuma and Yuma County, in Arizona, United States.

I intend to generate a reflection about lexicon and the load that the spoken language has in the construction of meanings, in a specific context. I focus in the scope of the word Yuma, in Cubans´ popular culture. This common expression acts as a metaphoric filter which transcends the only fact of designating or naming, and works as a personal mental image, tinged by the experience of each person in relation to politics, homeland, culture, emigration, success, language, family…

Liberty is a Palimpsest

Media: Video-installation

Materials/Technique: Video, cardboard box, remnants of glass. 

Dimensions: Variable // Video 9.30min, loop

Date: 2021

In this video I document my attempts and struggle to write one specific word with molten glass on a surface. I play with the limitation to write the whole word and with its legibility. That is one of the reasons repetition is so important in this work. Next to the video projection, there is a cardboard box which contains all the glass remnants from the described action. 

Video excerpt: https://youtu.be/T2876xvWogg

Media: Video-installation

Materials/Technique: Video, cardboard box, remnants of glass. 

Dimensions: Variable // Video 9.30min, loop

Date: 2021

In this video I document my attempts and struggle to write one specific word with molten glass on a surface. I play with the limitation to write the whole word and with its legibility. That is one of the reasons repetition is so important in this work. Next to the video projection, there is a cardboard box which contains all the glass remnants from the described action. 

Video excerpt: https://youtu.be/T2876xvWogg

Tautology

Media: Installation-action

Materials/Technique: Glass powder, screen, sound, wooden furniture, mirror. 

Dimensions/Duration: Variable / Video loop (5.04 min) 

Date: 2022

Two hands interact on video with a casted glass gun. Sound of glass crushing starts once the image transitions to a white screen.  

The work incorporates elements of redundancy, iteration, cycle, and intentional ambiguity. Rather than using the real object, I make a representation of it, subsequently destroying it to transform it into layers of abstraction and pure material. I am aiming to connect those layers of content with other culturally associated images and symbols of violence.

The piece extends my ongoing exploration of this theme, not only through the objects employed but also in the making processes themselves.

Media: Installation-action

Materials/Technique: Glass powder, screen, sound, wooden furniture, mirror. 

Dimensions/Duration: Variable/Video loop (5.04min)

Date: 2022

Two hands interact on video with a casted glass gun. Sound of glass crushing starts once the image transitions to a white screen.

The work incorporates elements of redundancy, iteration, cycle, and intentional ambiguity. Rather than using the real object, I make a representation of it, subsequently destroying it to transform it into layers of abstraction and pure material. I am aiming to connect those layers of content with other culturally associated images and symbols of violence.

The piece extends my ongoing exploration of this theme, not only through the objects employed but also in the making processes themselves.