Havana/A total of 63 artists from Cuba and countries such as Argentina, Spain and Mexico make visible the fight against discrimination from multiple approaches. gender violence in the group exhibition ‘I was also another: MásCaras’, inaugurated this Wednesday in Havana.
The exhibition, organized in the context of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, “aims to be a tribute to women who, historically, had to use pseudonyms to publish their works,” Diana Pedraza, who shares the curatorship with art critic Alay Fuentes, explained to EFE.
Pedraza, who also exhibits with a photograph, added that “the tribute is from a contemporary perspective, through photographs, paintings and performances.”
The exhibition “aims to be a tribute to the women who, historically, had to use pseudonyms to publish their works”
“It’s about the masks they had to wear in order to transcend,” added the young artist.
‘I was also another: MásCaras’, promoted by the cultural artistic enterprise Women’s Society, will remain for a month at the National Industrial Design Office in Havana.
The collective exhibition respects the project’s vision of combining established artists such as the Cuban Zaida del Río (2023 National Fine Arts Prize), with other newcomers such as the photographers Vida Winter and Claudia Raymat.
In the case of the first, she arrives at the exhibition with the piece ‘Impermanencias del ser’, with a message: “Do not be afraid to show ourselves as we are: women.”
Claudia Raymat, meanwhile, defends in her work ‘To be or not to be’ “the sensuality of women, their sweetness, but also their strength.”
