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LANDSCAPE - 2020

silk prints - 70x55cm

Landscape" is made up of two printed pieces of silk, superimposed: two archival images from the exploitation of cane sugar, slavery, and stock market speculation in reference to American interference in Cuba in the first half of the 20th century. One of them, by being overlaid on the other, cover and hides part of it. By lifting the veil we discover that this covered part is completely white: absence, erasure, disappearance… the document is truncated. On the visible part of the underneath piece of silk, it is difficult to glimpse the presence of agricultural workers who blend in as though they are camouflaged in the landscape. The two images dialogue with the erasure of memories leading to a reflection about archives: they make visible an erasure of labor force rendered invisible by the speculative power represented by the image above (a detail of stock voucher in cane sugar exploitation) which erases the image below. Like an agent producing amnesia, white areas that appear to be condemned by history. A cut-out landscape.
Silk, extremely fine and delicate, is a metaphor for the fragility of condition of visibility and memory.

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