Diango Hernández is the inheritor of political ambiguity: the Cuban revolution, one of the only remaining dictatorships. Over the course of half a century, Fidel Castro has come to occupy a role both of liberator (from the Batista regime) and tyrant (against the freedom of expression of his people). Hernández was born in Cuba, and has returned there regularly since 2003, when he moved to …
The starting-point for the exhibition Swans without a lake is a story by Diango Hernández, which tells of a subversive action in which Hernández took part in 1991 at the Cine Yara, a cinema in Havana. The experience in the cinema becomes the seed from which all those aspects and themes develop which Hernández artistically confronts in his works for the NAK. The focus of …
Cine Yara: Stones and signatures of swans without a lake by Diango Hernández. Democracy can be built neither with ink nor with light. I guess there are many relations between cinemas, stones and signatures, but what follows is just one of them. In June 1991 Alicia en el pueblo de maravillas (Alicia in the country of wonders) by Daniel Diaz Torres (1990) was …