This sound installation was born out of feeling lost, uprooted and resilient. There is a longing for what you have left and lost when you leave your home and reinvent yourself in a new context. For me, going to Latin parties in Germany has become a placebo, where in a short period of time (the duration of theparty) I try to find the feeling of cultural belonging, of lost home, of "family security", of a comfort zone. These events in Europe are an echo of the emigrated Latin American culture, which is trying to reorganise itself as a community in order to provide cultural resistance in the new context.

The creation of beaches without water in the short German summers as an accentuation of the summer climate is a fact that has struck me. The longed-for warm temperatures bring with them these beach scenes that remind me of my life in the Caribbean. !Yo quiero, cuando me muera create a map of the Latin American parties I attended during my two years in Germany and create a sandy beach without water in the gallery. On this kind of island you will hear some live music recordings from Sabor Latino party, courtesy of and in collaboration with Dj Delam (founder and organiser of these events).
Sabor Latino in Leipzig, where you can dance to the rhythm of reggaeton, drink Cuba Libre, dance salsa and bachata and honour our cultural heritage, is undoubtedly a place that has become an inseparable part of me and my new life. The installation Yo quiero cuando me muera has a political connotation for me. Quoting the simple verses written by the Cuban national poet José Martí during his second exile makes me think about my own political position. In Martí's Cuba, people fought against a colonial regime. In today's Cuba, people are fleeing from a totalitarian regime, losing their homeland to free themselves from their master, and from afar they put a plaster in the Perreo room to express their nostalgia for their lost homeland.