Cirenaica Moreira
La Industrial, Lavandería Habana

La Industrial, Lavandería Habana

© 1998 Cirenaica Moreira

La Industrial, Lavandería Habana
La Industrial, Lavandería Habana
CultureCuban
Titles
  • La Industrial, Lavandería Habana
  • from the series Metálica
  • The Industrial, Havana Laundry
  • from the series Metallic
Date1998–1999
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage (At open): 17 1/8 × 13 7/16 in. (43.5 × 34.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection, Gift of Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker
Object number2024.265
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
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Description

In the wake of the seemingly contradictory condi- tions of great deprivation and a loosening of social and economic policies during the Special Period, Cirenaica Moreira embarked on a series titled Metálica (Metallic), taking its name from one of the Spanish terms for money. Questioning the shifting values in 1990s Havana, Moreira created wearable structures of metal wires, rivets, milk cans, cookie tins, spoons, and all sorts of everyday utensils for this series. The fragmented body is her own. La Industrial takes its title from a commercial laundry that thrived in pre- revolutionary Cuba and whose weathered sign still hung in Reina Street at that time.

 

Con el Período Especial se dieron condiciones aparentemente contradictorias: la pauperización trajo un relajamiento de ciertas políticas sociales y económicas. A raíz de ello y cuestionando los valores cambiantes en la sociedad habanera de los 90s, Cirenaica Moreira emprendió su serie Metálica, aludiendo al término usado para referirse al dinero. Con alambres, remaches, latas de leche, envases de galletas, cucharas y otros utensilios cotidianos, Moreira creó estructuras ajustables al cuerpo. La anatomía fragmentada es la suya propia. La Industrial toma su título de una lavandería de la Cuba pre- rrevolucionaria, cuyo letrero desgastado aún colgaba en la calle Reina en ese momento.


ProvenanceMadeleine and Harvey Plonsker, Glencoe, Illinois; given to MFAH, 2024.

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