Tramas, nexos, cuerdas exhibition in the context of the Havana Biennial

By: Zulema Armas

In the municipality of Playa, a studio has been opened Biennial with the exhibition Tramas, nexos, cuerdas. The space of plastic artist Mary Cary Díaz, who has linked this way the most western area of the Cuban capital to the collateral activities in the context of the 12^th Havana biennial, is today in the international cultural sights.

This place is a beautiful space full of light and magic, in which Mary Cary unveils a special moment of her career with the pieces making up this exhibition. It offers the visitors a work of maturity, an exquisite sensitivity on black and white canvases.

Regarding to theme, the artist continues her reflection on sexuality, whose center is the woman. Portraits with elements coming from her previous work appear in this exhibition, and it becomes a reason for plastic experimentation. Her approaches to the engraving are enriched with the mastery she achieves in the drawing and demonstrate her craft. Each picture, white on black or black on white, tells a story and both colors read a life together. The installation becomes a scenario bringing us from the most private plane to one public, to lead us to that ambivalence in which we always move. They are images full of lyricism, where framed figures emerge, as well as fluctuating lines suggesting silhouettes, glazes, figuration and symbolic or ornamental superposition giving meaning to her firm gender speech. But, Mary Cary, gentle as usual, she leads us with her art of subtle self-assurance and innocent nudity.

In this exhibition, you will see proofs of truncated existence, trapped figures on a rare hank, in the way the life passes between brittle or suffocating strands. You see points of merging and rupture between the man and nature about where we come from or go, continuity and divergence, the being, genesis, and hence we go through the closest contexts and to the society itself, as allegories of the universe, because before the fickle games of fortune, the fact of tightening the strings, or making them to flow is the responsibility of everyone.

Source: Cubarte