Rendezvous with Cuba Painting

This work was in partnership with Dr Peipei as the research project in Cuba. We were in Cuba for a month doing filed trip and interviews in early 2018. The Cuba Collection - The Broken Wall was a two people show in Farnham, UK in 2019. Cuba as a mysterious country was trapped in a time warp and reeling from an economic embargo that has grated for more than half a century with many assumptions for the adventures and researchers to explore. As the artist and research, myself from an international background, it really causes my interests to explore what is the cultural identity shows to the visitors and what is the real compare with the information we’ve been given form the social media. I was deeply attracted by the surface of the walls on the street in Havana, it’s colourful; it’s obsolete; it’s meaningful. The government paints the wall every year or every two years to develop the tourist business, which it works. However, you can feel what is the people actual life by talking to them and going to the village. Even the currency is different for local citizen and visitors in Cuba. The name of Broken wall is the abstract title form the observation on the Havana street, no matter how colour the wall has been painted, the true story behind the new layer of paint is always the real and meaningful part that representing the real cultural of the country and the people.