COUNTDOWN :: Laura E. Perez Insua
Cunsthaus
September 28, 2019
"I was born and raised in Cuba. I was politically formed under socialist-communist principles that I repeated until I got exhausted. I was trained to deeply hate capitalism and therefore the U.S.A. I found in Art illusory freedom, an opportunity to express myself in a context of non-freedom of speech.
As a direct consequence of that, I'm interested in subverting power in any of its forms. I look for potentialities, faults, and cracks in socio-political structures to parody standards, restrictions and the establishment.
The untitled series of watercolors depicting rocket launches from U.S space stations is a body of work that reflects my encounter with the U.S society. The watercolors show colorful and blurry images of what it is an expansionist aim; the hidden nature of rocket launches. The unclear appearance of the watercolors emulates the turbulent motive behind the spectacle."
