I was born in Cuba and was interned in a camp for political dissidents as a child. History is not a subject I picked up from a dusty schoolbook, but things I’ve actually lived. I think of the body as the agent, measure, and sum of physical and cultural substance because my own body acts and is acted upon. It senses, remembers, and reports on lived experiences. In these works my body explores identity as a varied and hybrid representation deciphering myths and histories from different communal fonts. Like the mutability of social structures in my lost and new homelands, my work embraces ambiguity and uncertainty. This is reflected through interdisciplinarity. I paint, draw, photograph, work in sculpture and installation, straddling the intersection of the conceptual and confessional. Confounding my own slippage between the intensely felt and rationally conceived.
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- Beforehand/Afterwards 2015 Pigment Ink print on Archival paper 19″ x 13″
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- Beforehand/Afterwards II 2015-2016 Pigment Ink print on Archival paper, wood chair and embroidered military blanket dimensions varied
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- Border Crossing, Pittura Infamante (diptych) 2015 Pigment Ink print on Archival paper 13″ x 19″ each
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Border Crossing (Exposed Torso 2)
Photograph
13″x 19″
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- The Exodus III (Mariel Boatlift) 2015-2016 Mixed media on stretched polyester film, inkjet on onion skin paper dimensions variable
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- The Exodus I (Mariel Boatlift) and The Exodus II (Mariel Boatlift) 2015 Pigment Ink print on Archival paper with Carbon hand tinting 13″ x 19″
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- Fused, Fidel In Me (Contempt, Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Surprise,Happiness) 2015 Pigment Ink print on Archival paper six panels, 19″ x 13″ each
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Exodus (Lunation) 2015 Pigment Ink print
19″ x 13″
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Exodus (The Mirror) 2015 Pigment Ink print
24″ x 22″
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Exodus (Akimbo) 2015 Pigment Ink print
19″ x 13″
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Double Entendre, 2015
Watercolor on Paper
30″ x 41.5″
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Legend of the Fall, 2015
Watercolor on Paper
30″ x 22″
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Taste Of You, 2015
Watercolor on Paper
22″ x 30″
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Disappeared, 2015
Watercolor on Paper
30″ x 22″
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Tasty Totem, 2015
Watercolor on Paper
30″ x 22″
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Candy On My Tongue, 2015
Watercolor on paper
30″ x 22″
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- The Big Drink (Departure) 2016 Mixed media on stretched polyester film 48″x36″
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- Wet Feet Dry Feet Dancers, triptych 2016 Mixed media on stretched polyester film 40”x94”
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- detail- Wet Feet Dry Feet Dancers, left panel 2016 Mixed media on stretched polyester film 40” x 30”
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- detail- Wet Feet Dry Feet Dancers, center panel 2016 Mixed media on stretched polyester film 24” x 40”
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- detail- Wet Feet Dry Feet Dancers, right panel 2016 Mixed media on stretched polyester film 30”x24”
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- Dancing Splashdown 2016 Mixed media on stretched polyester film 40”x30”
Border Crossing 2015, Video 2:32 mins
The New Colossus 2015, Video 4 mins
Mi Patria Querida (My Dear Homeland) 2015, Video 3:39 mins
GTMO The White Rose 2015, Video 2 mins
Mi Fidel (My Fidel) 2015, Video 6:56 mins