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Casa Negra

Marco Castillo

Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid

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Title
Casa Negra
Gallery
Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid
Year
2022
Duration
10 min
Format & Technical

4K, Single-Channel Video, Monochrome/Colour, Sound

In present-day Cuba, you have to get your hands dirty in order to be a revolutionary. Rosibel, her daughter and the family dog, resist the siege of an angry mob that has gathered in front of her house to condemn her. What begins as a traditional repudiation rally against a dissident Cuban mother finally highlights the fine print of the Cuban Revolution’s contract.

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Marco Castillo

1971, Camagüey

Marco Castillo

Marco A. Castillo is one of the founders of the artistic collective Los Carpinteros, and his work is imbued with an interest in Cuba’s history and the social and cultural changes in the country after the Revolution. Castillo has extensively researched architecture, design and sculpture, which are fundamental parts of his artistic practice as he tries to create installations, drawings and sculptures that relate to space and negotiate between the functional and the non-functional, often expressed in a humorous way. Even in his first works, it is apparent that Castillo’s work is one of the most important and internationally influential of the Latin American continent of the last twenty years.