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situation to skepticism—and the retreat
of angry despair, are overwhelming. The
unfortunate—at the very lowest levels of
existence and dissipated in their ancestral devotional paths—are beginning to
reveal more diligence in the struggle for
survival via the syncretism of AfroCubanness of Western origin and other
practices. They elude collective dialogue, the rhetoric of the supposed majorities, and delve into introspection,
blame, and mistrust for the future. This
rhetoric withdraws into itself; topological enunciation follows the coordinates
of a phenomenon that some were trying
to validate as a strategy in artistic practices. Meanwhile, the protagonists already have suggestive visual identity,
dialogue obliquely with national history,
occult cultural practices, lowly work,
and another spiritual ills. The hypnotized
patrimony of identity and memory are
subjected to differentiated approaches
like preferential expressions of tradition-

al culture. The demystification of the
aesthetic paradigm, socialized icons,
emblems, and signs generates a system
of values in another reality, in circumstances foreign to any political or ideological commitment to a specific system,
and is against all indoctrination. It is a
way of maintaining an autonomous and
independent status. Exodus as an alternative for people in a subaltern culture, and
a feeling that their identities have lost
their patrimony, is found when it shifts
to other, affective and expressive, conceptual frameworks. These discrepant,
discursive directions among the subaltern population, which is socially disfavored, channels their subsistence in a
transgressive moral order with its own
codes and behaviors to be able to marginally survive. These are laterally
transgressive behaviors established in
the underworld in which they must live,
where it is dangerous to negotiate with
emblems and signs.

Abel Barroso.
Negotiating the Dominoes. Collage
Michel Mirabal. AA Party.
Mixed technique

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