curated
by: Ruth Schnell and Tommy Schneider
Cuban Time, within a combination of photographs and videos intends
to explore a broad spectrum of the relationships that Cuban people have with time, in an interaction of two different projects:
“Hotel Habana” focuses on the possibility to see the same place in different periods, as superimposed layers, as if time were
a transparent layer that we could see through. The artist calls our attention on how we understand the past, the present,
and how we imagine or fear the future. The second project “Time Traveler Loop” focuses on the distortion of the perception
of the passing of time, while wandering the streets of Havana, in a mesmerizing slow-motion composition that doesn‘t let us
know if time goes forward or backwards.
Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde, geboren 1969 in Berlin,
Deutschland. Lebt und arbeitet seit 1994 in Habana, Kuba, als Teil des Künstlerduos „Liudmila & Nelson“ (in Zusammenarbeit
mit der Künstlerin Liudmila Velasco). Seit 2010 Direktor und Kurator der Fototeca de Cuba (Cuban National Center for Photography).
Er gestaltete den kubanischen Pavillon auf der 55. Kunstbiennale Venedig.
Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde, born in Berlin,
Germany, 1969. Lives and works in Habana, Cuba, as part of the artist team
“Liudmila & Nelson” (in collaboration
with artist Liudmila Velasco) since 1994. Director and curator at Fototeca de Cuba (Cuban National Center for Photography)
since 2010. Represented the Cuban Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennale.
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www.liudmilanelson.com
