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Opening Friday May 18th 2007, 8 pm
Guest artist: IFE-ILE,
Afro-Cuban music and dance. Director: Neri Torres
Notes for photography
about syncretism and worships in Cuba.
Curator: Guillermo
Castellanos
Assistent curator: Silvia Dorfsman
Tres criollos Juanes
para la Virgen María.
Photographies by Gonzalo
González. From the series Plegarias Cubanas,
Circa 2005.
The Virgen Maria procession, worshiped in
Cuba
as La Virgen
de La Caridad del Cobre,
is the theme of Plegarias Cubanas,
the first set of photographies that compose this
exhibition. La Caridad
or simply "Cachita" is not
only an emblematic figure for popular worship but an icon of the Cuban
culture. The vision that González offers has a lot in common with what the
Virgin herself represents, and very few with the extroverted folklore
typical of documentary photography.
San Lázaro, Babalú Ayé o los matices de la improvisación popular.
Photographies by Raúl Cañibano. From the series Fe por San Lázaro, Circa 2005. These images of Ermita Del Rincón,
celebrated on December 17th each year are touching and dramatic due to the
explicit demonstration of the tragedy in ceremonial faith practices. Fe por san Lázaro is a shocking synthesis of these
pilgrims congregation in their way to the sanctuary, few kilometers from
the community Santiago de Las
Vegas in Havana.
Confesiones de Tata O'Farril: la persistencia
del legado africano.
Photographies by Humberto Mayol.
From the series Los Santos de la Calle,
1998-2005. In Mayol's images, the photographic
document acquires its complete essence through the explicit representation
of the fact itself. It reveals information that rarely is shared within the
usual channels of communication. In Los
Santos de la Calle, the photographer documents the complex and
symbolic world of the liturgy in different African descendant religions in
Cuba: La Regla
de Osha or Santería ,
from Nación Yoruba; La Regla del
Palo-Monte or Conga
or Mayombe;
La Regla
Arará, the Sociedad Secreta Abakuá and certain Vudú
practices, common in a significant group of inhabitants of the oriental
part of the island. The indiscreet eye of Mayol's
camera achieves the purpose of interfering and revealing the hidden
universe of magic, rites and popular beliefs, a visual world reserved, in
most cases, to the initiated and their ceremonial masters, Paleros, Santeros and Babalawos that worship in their temples
and their own altars improvised in their homes to venerate their deities
the Orisha.
At CCE. Free Admission.
On view until
June 29th. Visiting hours M-F 10am-5pm
Closing/Reception Friday, June 29th, 8pm. Concert of Jude Papaloko(Haiti).
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