How You Look at it

La obra compila reflexiones sobre la envidia entre mujeres, entre padres e hijos, entre colegas y amigos, entre jóvenes y viejos, pobres y ricos, hombres y mujeres, entre actrices, modelos, amantes y entre perfectos desconocidos. Esto confirma el amplio espectro de una pasión triste que es capaz de atravesar todo tipo de registros de la condición humana, transformándose en poderosos afectos como el resentimiento, la codicia, el rencor, el odio, la tristeza y la alegría malsana, lo cual es analizado por los autores de estos ensayos de cine y filosofía a través de la mirada...

La Mirada (the gaze) presents nine outside their country almost unknown Latin American artist-photographers. The works of the last 20 years range from straight photography to the staged image. This title describes not only gaze of the camera directed towards a specific subject, but also the artistic attitude and mental approach of the nine artists and their diverse views on photography.

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...

Las obras presentadas desarrollan una síntesis de mecanismos y técnicas propias de la renovación de los lenguajes del siglo XX, principalmente la apropiación fotográfica, el collage y el trazo informalista, en un afán de celebrar el arte y criticar la sociedad que nos rodea.