LILIANA FUSTES
A young Cuban Artist awarded the Roberto Diago Prize in her first Exhibit in Matanzas. At 23 years old Liliana already has a solo exhibition at the famous Cuban Gallery located at Luz y Oficios in the Center for Plastic Arts and Design in Havana.
Statement
My work expresses ideas simply and understandably, almost reaching an
allegory or symbol. Therefore, it is not fair to judge these works as exact copies of nature,
but as independent organisms of lines, surfaces, textures, and colors that only acquire their
definitive forms until they are understood. It has several handles: memory, worship, and
spirituality. These are based on symbols that come from Cuban Santeria.
Prints
It consists of a
defense of Cuban religious values and imaginaries based on my emotional memory but of a
concern insofar as: religion must be personal expression and a path of faith justified by the
personal. I don’t let them be cold or studied pieces, but yes, from those impulses of the
subconscious, from the relationship with the dreamlike, with that spiritual link.
I express my sentimental relationship with these religions that do not start from knowledge
but from a bond through Natural means. For this reason I do not represent deities but rather
I reinterpret through figurations what comes to me, impulses of the soul. My formal and
conceptual references are Wifredo Lam, Manuel Mendive, Moisés Finalé, José Bedia,
Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal, and Belkis Ayon as the main reference.
Colography
The support I use is
wood or metal, some materials for creating textures and reliefs are sandpaper, magazine
paper, nylon, cardboard, fabric, thread, moldable paste, fabric, and glue. The proposal
consists of works of different dimensions in the graphic technique Colography, this is my
interest: achieving a good finish on the blocks, thus being the work itself.