Sonia Teresa Almaguer to open art exhibition in Romerías de Mayo

Havana.- Sonia Teresa Almaguer returns to her birthplace,Holguin, with her art exhibition entitled La joven luz, postales de teatro cubano (The young light, postcards of Cuban theater) to be inaugurated on May 6, at  El Alba Academy of Fine Arts, as part of Romerías de Mayo festival.

The exhibition includes twenty portraits of fourteen shows starred young actors and actresses from five Cuban provinces, where the artist of the lens, rather than capturing the external beauty or the climax of a stages, reveals the emotional burden, the expressive force of those showing another reality on the stage.

Speaking to the AIN News Agency, Sonia Teresa highlighted that until very recently, she had been devoted to document creative processes, assemblies with some directors and groups and details that the audience never see but are vital while conceiving any show.
 

She added that, at present, she is focused on actors; those who decide, give body and soul to a character, and devote to the stage as to the lustral bath, where the art of exceptional representations prevail.

La joven luz… is sponsored by the Hermanos Saíz Association and Romerías de Mayo festival and coordinated by Mala Vista Producciones.

Abel González Melo, one of the most prolific young Cuban playwrights, says in the words of the catalog that we often understand the best pictures of Performing Arts are those that try to capture the greatest moments of a show and keep them for posterity, especially attractive angles of a setting neatly illuminated, or a beautiful cast.

She also notes that, however, Sonia Teresa is increasingly specializing in perpetuating details of which are, according to what she defends in her photographic concept, the real stars of the stage: actresses and actors.

In this regard she says that something that draws the attention in the current exhibition is the accuracy of the look and gesture of performers, as she has insisted, rather than the pursuit of the external beauty, in stripping intensity, the vigor, the frenzy of acting; achieving a sensory recording rather than technical perfection.

Source: AIN