Evelyn Aguilar- Nameless waters

The visual itineraries of the recent artistic production of Evelyn Aguilar (Havana, 1991) reveal an interest in exploring -and exploiting- the sea as an expressive resource. The immeasurability of this mass of water, gentle and/or temperamental, its powerful, unfathomable force, emanates from the works on canvas and metal of this young Cuban artist. The richness of the impasto and the unhurriedness of the brushstrokes that her works exhibit, tensing the borders of the figurative, recreating almost abstract images or, as the artist herself prefers to call it, snippets of that sea.

“Certain coordinates help us to reconstruct the memory… The open sea is part of my being, as well as the analogy between time, the customs of man, the condition of a cultural, historical, geographical island, which have defined my past and continue to do so from now on. But more than being, it is feeling like that open sea, it is my metaphor of the human soul. That is why it became essential in my work to represent something as open as the ocean to rethink about the fragments that define not one, but all people, a context, a time and an insular tradition.”