RASUA
Video / 0:55 min
2009
2008 Ephemerides
Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba, 2010.
The work begins with the idea that bodily residues—quietly released and often overlooked—inevitably settle somewhere, forming subtle landscapes within other landscapes and shaping the environments we inhabit. From this perspective, Cuba is imagined as an eternal summer, where the artist interprets social and political reality through the metaphor of climate, evoking a persistent sensation of heat. To emphasize the urgent need for environmental change, she constructs a scene in which a figure combs their hair while seated in a warm landscape, and the falling dandruff accumulates so abundantly that it resembles snow, creating an unexpected inversion of climate and revealing how intimate traces can transform and redefine the terrain they inhabit.