On November 22-26th, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Latin America Program supported the Dissident Art Gallery’s organization of a Cuban “artivist’s” exhibition at the San Felipe neighborhood in Bogota, Colombia. In parallel to the most important art week in Colombia, ARTBO, this exhibition showed the work of three female Cuban artists (two of them still in the island) who react to the disaster of Cuba with pain and indignation.
Entitled “Morir es vivir” (To die is to live), the exhibit showcased Camila Lobon, Carla María Bellido and Nadia Díaz Graveran to the Colombian public for the first time. Camila Lobón draws her personal images from the heartbreak that is shown in raw images, with a certain satire and cynicism included. Carla María Bellido is silent, she is so silent that her gesture becomes a reaffirmation of ostracism, the horror cannot be understood or explained. Nadia Díaz Graverán, perhaps because she is a mother, appeals to contained rituality as a way of showing what she can still save, but in that minimum that remains, the loss is still greater than the gain.
