Adrián Fernández
Sin título No. 1

Sin título No. 1

© 2017 Adrián Fernández

Sin título No. 1
Sin título No. 1
CultureCuban
Titles
  • Sin título No. 1
  • Untitled No. 1
  • from the series Pending Memories
  • from the series Memorias pendientes
Date2017, printed 2020
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage (at open): 58 1/4 × 58 1/4 in. (148 × 148 cm)
Sheet (at open): 58 1/4 × 58 1/4 in. (148 × 148 cm)
Mount: 59 × 59 in. (149.9 × 149.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2021
Object number2020.102
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Inspired by industrial remnants, unfinished construction projects, propaganda billboards, and carnival decorations, Adrián Fernández collaborated with architects, engineers, and computer specialists to combine an analog, lens-based photograph (the landscape) with a digitally constructed image of the back of a fictional structure. It is easy to imagine this structure, set along the Malecón, Havana’s seaside esplanade, as the remains of a once-grand declaration, facing north like a challenge to the U.S. and as a greeting to anyone arriving in Havana by sea. Fernández intends this image to be a metaphor for today’s teetering ruins of the Cuban Revolution’s grand ambitions.


ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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