MICRO D VITAMIN
Performance,
specific context in Solymar Hotel, Varadero Beach, Cuba.
March 2023.
Acrylic print
Equality is a fairy tale inside Cuba. Tourists are treated better than the nationals themselves by the government. They have privileges that Cubans themselves cannot enjoy and sometimes it is forbidden to them and all because of their monetary superiority, the euro zon and the dollar zone. Today I can go for the first time to a hotel in Varado and enjoy the privileges that in my 27 years in Cuba I was never able to experience. Today I am a subject of interest for my money and I am no longer treated the same as other Cubans. Varadero is the blue paradise of tourists where Cuba is perfect and where most visitors prefer their vitamin D injection.
ORIGINAL TEXT: MODELO PRE FABRICADO (PRE FABRICATED MODEL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3ULWkA8i8
“micro D vitamin” is a project that discusses the migration of Cubans abroad. The new status we acquire for our government after leaving the country. For the socialist government of Cuba, individuals who leave our homeland have historically been renegades, as sellers of our homeland. However, in recent years the deep economic crisis affecting the country has made the government put individuals like me in a new category of interest since family remittances are one of Cuba’s main economic sources and our visits inject a lot of hard currency into the country.
We as individuals born in socialism were formed under the precept of equality for all, politically it is part of the propaganda of the system, but the reality is that in Cuba long ago the social classes have begun to divide and Cubans who emigrated, we entered a new category of economically wealthy and began to have access to the privileges that never living inside the island we could reach. Going to a hotel, visiting the beauties of Cuba was unthinkable for me before I emigrated because of its enormous cost for my economy as a local, today I return as a tourist to my own land and I can enjoy its wonders.