Catálogo: ‘Un día feliz’ / Reynier Leyva Novo
Aquí les va el catálogo que la Galería El Apartamento (Habana / Madrid) hiciera de la excelente serie Un día feliz (2016-2023) (2024) de Reynier Leyva Novo, una serie que desde que se exhibió por primera vez en 2020 ha continuado creciendo.
«Un día feliz shares a post-utopian vision in the context of dictatorships motivated by a utopian conception of society: Mao Zedong’s communist project in China or Fidel Castro’s socialism in Cuba. These are anthological photographs of these dictators in which the protagonist has been removed from the composition thanks to a complex work of digital post-production of the images.
An innocently bucolic landscape, a dramatic situation where the absence of the main character is noticeable, or an ordinary cityscape are the empty scenes of a world made to the measure of these rulers. Totalitarianism demands not only a strong control of the image of power, but also of space».
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