Walking Cuba is a staged photographic series in which the lower body of a woman wearing high heels traverses symbolic Cuban landscapes. The fragmented body operates as a vehicle to question national identity, ideology, repetition, and direction. By isolating movement and gesture, the series transforms walking into a metaphor for historical stagnation and cyclical narratives. [...]
Silabismo Fotocubierto (Silabismo Fotografico) is a long-term visual research project initiated in 2003 that explores the relationship between language, image, and photographic materiality. The work is based on a self-developed technique in which words are fragmented into syllables and translated into individual photographic images. These images are then intervened directly on 35 mm negatives—scratched, written, [...]
Surco (Furrow) presents human bodies aligned within a physical furrow, evoking the metaphor of seeds, displacement, and cyclical movement. Conceived both as photographic images and as a large-scale floor installation using real soil, the work explores migration, labor, and belonging. The body becomes a unit within a collective geography, suspended between growth and erasure SURCO [...]
Transforming the Digital into a Physical Product. Digital Nectar presents staged still lifes in which digital information is metaphorically filtered through transparent glass vessels. The series reflects on contemporary dependence on screens, data consumption, and emotional disconnection, proposing photography as a critical interface between physical and digital realities . . . . Digital Nectar, [...]
Los Invisibles portrays anonymous workers whose bodies are partially concealed by translucent plastic surfaces. The veil functions as both a physical and symbolic barrier, suggesting social invisibility, labor erasure, and fragile presence. The work balances documentary origin with conceptual restraint, allowing opacity to speak louder than exposure. . . . The Invisibles III. 2022 Technique: [...]
TV Play is a photographic action series using obsolete television sets to explore the tension between physical reality and mediated experience. The work anticipates contemporary debates on virtual presence, spectatorship, and technological control. . . . Some of the works that make up the installation project. TV PLAY, Sleep. 2005 Technique: 35mm Color Analog Photography. [...]
Detritus reflects on environments shaped by abandonment and industrial decay. The work emerges from lived experience and examines the transformation of poverty into landscape. Azul explores chromatic limitation as an emotional and social metaphor, reinforcing themes of scarcity, repetition, and atmosphere. . . From the series Detritus. 2007. Technique: Digital photography later intervened . . [...]
Moods is a visual series that explores human emotions through compositions of fruits, colors, and geometric forms. Each piece represents an attitude or feeling, translated into organized structures that symbolize sensory patterns of the mind. Works such as Apple of Discord, Confused Pineapple, Relaxed Avocado, Half-Ripe or Half-Green Banana, Troubled Mango, Contradictory Lemon, Lovestruck Strawberry, […]
Urban Emotions (Cuestiones de estados) integrates digital words directly onto photographic surfaces, generating visual statements that reflect sociopolitical and emotional conditions. Language operates as an image rather than a caption, interrupting perception and reinforcing photography as a site of conceptual inscription. Balance. 2008 Technique: Digital photography later intervened, with handwritten words added. . . . [...]
Pharaoh, The Story Continues uses the iconography of Ancient Egypt as a symbolic framework to examine contemporary structures of power. Historical figures of authority are reconfigured with faces from the present, collapsing temporal distance and exposing the persistence of domination, worship, and submission across civilizations. The work operates through visual displacement rather than narration, suggesting [...]
Visual Stresses examines perception under conditions of obstruction. Urban images are partially interrupted by grids, circular barriers, and visual filters that interfere with direct sight. The act of seeing becomes delayed, fragmented, and tense. The image is not offered transparently but must be negotiated. Photography functions here as a site of resistance, where vision is [...]
Documents an installation and sculptural work developed and presented in Havana during the Havana Biennial in 2015. The project emerges from a prolonged process rather than a single event, registering actions, spatial interventions, and material transformations over time. Photography operates here not as an autonomous artwork but as a documentary and reflective tool, preserving the [...]
note: GUSANOS (“Worms” – derogatory Cuban slang for emigrants) Worms (Gusanos) is a project developed from photographic self-actions carried out in Cuba, using a suitcase commonly known in popular slang as “gusano.” The work addresses the charged political and social connotations embedded in this object and term. In 2012, the project expanded into sculptural form [...]
Networks of Confidences (Redes de Confidencias) is a photographic project developed in Cuba between 2007 and 2009, based on portraits of one hundred friends and acquaintances photographed inside their homes. Each participant was asked to remove their shoes and hold them in their hands as a gesture of consent and complicity with the project. In [...]
The Voyeur is a photographic project developed as an exploration of observation, distance, and the asymmetry of the gaze. The series is constructed from images taken from concealed or indirect viewpoints, emphasizing the tension between seeing and being seen. Rather than documenting subjects, the work focuses on the act of looking itself, exposing voyeurism as [...]
One Day of Ofelia documents the daily domestic life of a Cuban woman within her home. Shot on 35 mm color film, the series functions as both an intimate portrait and a social record, revealing care, labor, and resilience within a modest household A Day of Ophelia" was the first color photographic series created by [...]
La Canasta is an analog color photographic work centered on a basketball hoop interacting with sunlight. Created in 1994, the series reflects an early interest in geometry, repetition, and symbolic abstraction. LA CANASTA was the first color photographic series exhibited in a gallery in Cuba, this was in Matanzas, 1994. The Basket I. 1994 [...]
