OBSESSION

TRAGA!

Mujercitos is a collective.

Although Mujerciitos publishes on social media networks, it is not a media outlet. Mujercitos uses visual, textual and paratextual writing to reveal "things you keep quiet"

Vomit is their means of expression.

Vomit is freedom.

Monument to Decree 349

The imagery in the work mixes Chinese propaganda with Stalinist monumentalism, replacing Mao’s little red book with a freestanding (decree) ‘349’. This design draws from a constellation of Chinese monuments that Lavastida plans to explore in highlighting other decrees issued by the Cuban government; for example, Decree 270, which impacts freedom of the press.

Still Life Series: turning violence into art / mobile phone video

These drawings were made by Luis Manuel Alcántara Otero during the 30 days he was hospitalized against his will, after going on hunger strike in protest to the repression he endured by the Cuban state. The artist had no communication with the outside and was not permitted visitors. He was under surveillance 24 hours a day.

Protest Sheet

Something alive inside something dead

The sculpture talks about the necessity of going beyond the limits imposed by a reduced space. The space can be a prison, a country, a body or a stiff concept.

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Repudiation acts have been a habitual practice in Cuba since the 1960's. They consist of groups of citizens, orchestrated by the Department of State Security or organizations subordinate to the Communist Party, partaking in verbal abuse, physical attack or vandalization of the property of those who disagree with the government.

A Special Operation

Fifty plants from all over the world talk to us. They found a book “Sobrevivencia” with instructions on how to survive in nature, a book made for the Cuban Special Operations Military. There are images of plants in the book but they do not look as they do in reality. The plants say that they are spectrums, but the military is not aware.

Aforismos ensartados (pabellón 1)

The series began on Llópiz-Casal’s Instagram feed surrounding the ongoing repression of artists and intellectuals by the government in the Cuban context. The textual designs were then transformed into physical, wearable objects for the OBSESSION exhibition in Vienna. T-shirts and buttons advertising the faces of political prisoners in Cuba are intended to be seen inside and worn outside the gallery in public space.

PEQUOD

The work approaches the influence of politics on affective relationships and the construction of perception through centralized power. The approach is in the "politicization of the affective" as a generator of "philias" between subjects of the same ethnic group or social class, creating a unity to the detriment of empathy —an oppressor of difference and individual freedoms.

Luz de Noviembre

Light of November was created in November of 2020, a month baptized in Cuba as ‘Black November’ due to the escalation of the Cuban regime’s repressive acts against its citizens. The work is dedicated to the strikers of the San Isidro Movement, to the victims of rape, repression and unjust sentences by the Cuban police, and to the protesters of November 27, 2020.

Selection of 8 artists’ videos

These videos narrate the life experiences over the past year of the Cuban curator, Solveig Font. The process is told through 8 artists’ videos, each of which correlate to a physical, emotional, or psychological life experience during periods of lockdown, protest, and the curator’s house arrest.