Havana Biennial at the Museum of Fine Arts

Havana, Jan. 8 (Prensa Latina) A tour of the National Museum of Fine Arts in this capital took place today as part of the Havana Biennial with works by important Cuban artists and those from nations in the Caribbean, Africa and the United States.
Themes such as violence, decolonization, femicide, discrimination against black women and others are recurrent in this extensive exhibition of Universal and Cuban Art that began on November 15.
The large-format work presented by Puerto Rican artist Gisela Colón transforms the personal into the universal, as she herself expresses, and exhibits a set of pieces at the entrance of the Universal Art Museum that represent armed violence on a personal and collective level.

Parabolic Monolith Phosphorus, Parabolic Monolith Chlorophyll, Parabolic Monolith Hermatite (2023) and Hyper Ellipsoid (Borralus) (2022) are pieces by this artist that focus on the viewer's attention to the shape of the sculptures on display.

Metaphorically, these creations symbolize bullets (armed violence) transformed into mountains that channel negative energies, becoming vehicles of energies of struggle, survival and resilience, according to the description given by the artist.

From Trinidad and Tobago, Jaime Lee Loy presents a work with 79 transparent hearts of variable dimensions in 3D displayed on the wall of one of the rooms and the number refers to the current age of the artist's father.

Another of the samples is that of the Cuban Belkys Ayón, who in this exhibition presents a cornerstone piece in the renewal of engraving and printing techniques.

Ayón was a continuator of the perspectives opened by Wilfredo Lam. «Hasta que la muerte nos separe» is another of the large-format pieces, an iconic installation by Anaida Hernández (Puerto Rico) exhibited at the 1994 Havana Biennial.

This work named the first 100 women documented as victims of femicide. Black women used as scientific experiments is the presentation by Tabita Rezaire (France, resides in French Guiana). Rezaire explores the contributions of black women in the advancement of modern science and medical technology.

«Sugar walls teardom» is a video installation and in it the artist writes about slavery, blacks and women's bodies, times when they were used and abused as merchandise for work on plantations.

The extensive exhibition belonging to the 15th Havana Biennial will be on display until February 28 when this mega artistic event ends.
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