66 women's works on display in Cuba

Cuba exhibition 'brings dialogue' between works by 66 women from different generations and styles
Havana, Nov 25 (EFE).- A total of 66 female visual artists from various generations and with different aesthetic discourses share space in the exhibition Alineaciones al límites (Lineaments to the Limit), which opens its doors this Monday within the Havana Biennial, one of the main cultural events in Cuba.

The exhibition tries to express how these dissimilar artists conceive the role of women in all areas, how cooperation between them can enable their access and what role art plays in all this, especially as a facilitator.

The curator of the collective exhibition, Alay Fuentes, explained to EFE that in the exhibition "we can find works by established artists such as the Cuban painter Zaida del Río (National Prize for Plastic Arts 2023) or by young unknown artists within the plastic arts space who are exhibiting for the first time."

“These women share the same space with different types of discourse, techniques and artistic media. They represent various generations, ethnicities and social classes and are united by the idea of how women conquer all possible spaces through art,” Fuentes added.

The 70 pieces –including oil paintings, digital and printed photography, performance and audiovisuals- that make up “Alineaciones al límites” will be on display for a month at the National Office of Industrial Design in Havana, within the cultural programming of the Havana Biennial, an initiative that began on November 15.

The exhibition arose from the Women’s Society project, of which Fuentes is a founder and which, in turn, “discusses women within their living space, within their community and how, through art, they conquer all spaces,” he said.

“The objective is to represent how this solidarity and sisterhood among women can achieve that these spaces are conquered at some point,” Fuentes said.

The curator said that this project is the dream of his life: “Founded for and about women in the visual arts and how they support, represent, reinforce and make women visible within society.”

The visual artists come mostly from Cuba, although there are also representatives from Germany, Argentina, Spain, France and Italy, he said.

The Havana Biennial brings together some 400 artists in this edition, 230 of them foreigners, between mid-November and the end of February in the Cuban capital, where dozens of galleries, museums and public spaces host exhibitions, workshops and cultural activities.
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