De la permanencia y otras necesidades
On Permanence and Other Needs


Performance / Video / Video - Installation
2013 – 2019

The Last Supper, Open-air Cinema
Faena Festival, Miami Beach, US /2019
Surprise
Netwerk – International Center for Contemporary Art, Belgium / 2016
Falling Apart Together. FLUC, Vienna, Austria /2016
Pavilion of the Republic of Cuba- 56.
International Exhibition. The Venice Biennale, Italy /2015
Silent Contemplated Variations
National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuban Art Building, Havana, Cuba /2014
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Centro Phi, Montreal, Canada. / 2013







For about 5 minutes accompanied by sound, I licked a cactus. The work shows a dialogue between the tongue’s softness and the cactus’s hurtful thorns. 
We should confront things without fear. Loving at all costs could be a strategy for living with all those external antagonisms that cause us so much pain, sadness, and disappointment. It is necessary to resist them if we want to live with ourselves.
This piece is the result of decisions I've made as a way of life; it illustrates my attitude, and I think of it as a reminder to face hurtful situations with my best intentions.

This piece is a performance presented as an installation, video, or video installation.






National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba.
Pavilion of the Republic of Cuba- 56. International Exhibition. The Venice Biennale, Italy
Centro Phi, Montreal, Canada.
The Last Supper, Open-air Cinema
Faena Festival, Miami Beach, US

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