10 Volumes: Fragments of a Shared Landscape

Kunsthall 3,14 is proud to present a comprehensive group exhibition featuring ten Cuban contemporary artists who live and work in Cuba today. The works, spanning photography, film, sculpture, and painting, are shaped by the tensions within Cuban society. Each artist contributes to a shared yet fragmented landscape – one that is both personal and political, intimate and collective.

What becomes visible when we no longer seek solutions, but resilience? Political stagnation in Cuba weakens the belief in finding new solutions. At the same time, the exhibition reveals a kind of perceverence – how one learns to live and operate within an oppressive system, decade after decade. The labyrinth-like wall constructions in the main hall – where the works unfold – become, in themselves, a metaphor for the often obstructed paths that artists must navigate in Cuban society to express their truths and create space for ambiguity, critique, or dissent.

While the works reference the situation in Cuba, they move beyond documentary or testimonial expression. The artists work with poetics and suggestion – they propose, hint, conceal, and reveal, expressing themselves through symbols and metaphors. This ambivalent, coded language functions as quiet resistance. At a time when clear answers are often demanded and nuance is fading, 10 Volumes suggests a different rhythm – slower, but no less urgent.

Artists in the exhibition: Pablo Bordon, Reinaldo Cid, Khadis De La Rosa Olyo, Adonis Flores, Osmel Herrera Lopez, Duniesky Martin, Clara Massó, Marianela Orozco, Levi Orta, og Linet Sánchez