© Carlos Garaicoa Manso
Presented by the Latin American Acquisitions Committee with funds provided
by the American fund for the Tate Gallery 2004
T11864
Letter to the Censors comprises a scale model of a cinema supported by a wooden scaffolding structure typical of those seen in the artist’s native Havana. Inside the model is a screen on which a montage of the opening credits of films censored in Cuba and abroad is projected. The work represents a film archive of censored titles that has the potential to be infinitely continued. In one corner of the model the censor’s office can be seen through windows. The installation also includes ten small light boxes with black-and-white photographs depicting the decaying facades of Cuban cinemas. By highlighting the destruction of the cinemas, the work critically examines the association of Havana with picturesque decay.
Francis
Picabia
Michelangelo
Pistoletto
Louise
Bourgeois
Lawrence
Weiner
Rodney
Graham
Fiona
Tan
Carlos
Garaicoa
Olafur
Eliasson
Francis
Alÿs
