“Color cubano”, photo exhibition on Cuban identity at ‘Ajuntament Vell’ gallery

cartell 2021 joaquim seguiAt 6.00pm Monday 15 March, the “Ajuntament Vell” exhibition space will pull back the curtain on Color cubano, a collection of photos by Mallorca-born and Eivissa-based Joaquim Seguí, a career cardiologist who, in 2011, began honing expert chops as a photographer. The show’s forty photographs were taken on the Caribbean island of Cuba, its inhabitants unquestionably the consummate protagonists of the show. The display is the reflection and result of an eponymous collection of photos put out by Seguí in 2017 which included texts from Cuban poets like Nicolás Guillén and writers like Leonardo Padura, as well as forwards by Omar de León, Carmen Alemany and Fanny Tur.

The photos of Cuba contained in the show are exercises in discretion and respectfulness, and speak to the complex reality of a society which, after years of revolution and trade embargo, fights to forge a new identity without losing sight of its origins, beliefs, culture... and conquests.

The show can be seen from 16 to 27 March 2021, 11.00am to 2.00pm and 6.00pm to 8.00pm. Weekly closure on Sunday and Monday morning.

11 March 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera