The cuban artist Ernesto Benítez premiered this week at the Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura the work “Leviathan”, an exhibition consisting of a pile of inflated garbage bags, which allude to the person “stripped of identity”, according to press reports.
The work, which will be available until February 7, is also a reference to authoritarianisms “from the personal” to “the Governments”, but, above all, to the “expendable” of the “subject, uniform collectivism and the Machiavellian anonymity of the hypnotized mob”, as Benítez explained to the agency EFE.
The author -based in Spain- adds with “Leviathan” his second personal exhibition in Cuba in the last ten years and announced that he hopes to do a similar one “soon” in Spain, adds the Spanish media.
The sample of the also professor of Art and Anthropology also alludes to how the subjects in today’s society are “to use and throw away” and, in the end, it is also a person “nobody” in the mass.
In the same way, according to the information that accompanies the work in the center —in front of the iconic Havana boardwalk— it refers “directly to the hegemonic neoliberal ‘matrix’, mediated by the sacrosanct technology, to the implacable influence and to the real power of the market”.
Born in Havana in 1971, Ernesto Benítez is a “multidisciplinary” Cuban artist, with “a marked conceptual and experimental projection,” according to his biographical file. It has twenty personal and collective exhibitions, as well as various performances and interventions.
In addition to Cuba, his works are part of private collections in countries such as the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Spain and Brazil, among others.
EFE / OnCuba
