In Cuba’s totalitarian system, silence is not neutrality—it is imposed. To speak, to create, to simply exist freely becomes an act of resistance.
This exhibition presents the work of Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, currently imprisoned for exercising his right to self-expression. Through drawings, performances, and sculptures made in conditions of extreme surveillance and repression, Otero Alcántara transforms enforced silence into a language of defiance and persistence. His body becomes a battleground; his art, undeniable testimony.
Alongside him, artists like Maykel Osorbo—also currently imprisoned and one of the protagonists of the song PATRIA Y VIDA—remind us of the brutal cost of censorship and the power of art to confront it. Their works insist on the right to speak, to remember, to be heard.
These pieces are acts of survival. Acts of saying No to silence, and Yes to life, dignity, and the urgent necessity of art.
