Envidia. Historia de los afectos

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...

Los útiles y los inútiles invita al lector a un ejercicio: volver a ver películas conocidas y amadas tratando de dejar de lado la tan presente y tan ruidosa figura humana. Lo que queda en la panta¬lla es un amplio panorama de objetos, cosas, utensilios que sería reductivo catalogar bajo las categorías de mobiliario y de deco¬rado, puesto que su presencia en las películas parece dar forma a un verdadero dispositivo de visión, capaz de crear un pacto entre mundo, sujetos y representación. Es con mirada interdisciplinar como Los útiles y los inútiles quiere aventurarse en ese mundo...

In our modern digital age, the polaroid is already becoming a relic of the past. However, the fleeting moment and the uniqueness of it, lend the polaroid a quality beyond its mere merit as a "good" or "bad" photograph. Like a painting, a polaroid becomes an irreplaceable treasure and object of desire, as only one person may own the original. Perfectly lit and composed, these polaroids are Bitesnich's images in miniature, the painterly sketches for later works of art. Though as with most artists, the sketches ultimately become artworks in themselves. AUTHOR Andreas H. Bitesnich started his...

The project "Realities and Desires" by Susana Casarin began in January of 2007 in some areas of high marginalization in the State of Veracruz and in the districts of Netzahualcyotl and Ecatepec on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her photographs graphically documented the life stories of local transvestites and transgender persons highlighting in her images the stigma, discrimination and marginalization of gender suffered by this vulnerable social group. Includes texts by doctor and surgeon Arnoldo Kraus.