Liset Gutiérrez Cruz participates with two works in the Necrología 2022 (Necrology 2022) virtual collective exhibition, promoted by the Goya Gallery (Mexico) of international character with the theme of death, open to the public from November 25 to December 18.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- The pieces are Lobreguez (Murk) and the diptych Óbito fetal (Fetal death), belonging to the series Gravidez de una Ninfa, with the technique of digital printing on photographic paper, which was already exhibited at the Casa del Joven Creador in Las Tunas, as her first discovery to the local public.
The promotional video for the exhibition expresses that they were thought within a total of 34 snapshots and "are related to the failed pregnancy caused by a fetal death, from the documentary and narrative genre dramatic scenes that recreate and describe a real fact in a self-referential way are presented.
"They date from 2018 and were among the most outstanding and liked by the viewer. I chose to work with photography because it allows me to archive and freeze a moment of life, an option that I have considered throughout this creative period one of the manifestations that stand out the most in my work."
According to the artist, her series Gravidez de una Ninfa (Gravity of a Nymph) "follows a line of theoretical construction through the formation from embryo to fetus, the complications during the natural process of creation, the tearing of the placenta until fetal death, and the relationship between life/death. Human genesis that guides the cycle of gestation of the individual, birth..., but failed."
Shocking images result from the compositions, in which the light supports a discourse of birth from the feeling, the transition of states, or the same self-observation where the creator becomes a model to achieve the perspective, from the physical evidence, to understand the loss.
Courage and tact are necessary to bring the observer, with a certain realism, closer to death in such an early stage in the life of a human being, the paradox of consciousness in the fetus and the loss of the woman herself, the mother who has given nourishment and shelter from her essence.
Liset Gutiérrez Cruz graduated from the Oswaldo Guayasamín Plastic Arts Academy (Granma) in the specialty of Ceramics, 11 years ago. She participated in a national salon with an award-winning photograph and from then on, she decided to venture more into this field.
"I am very interested in working on themes related to women, exploring the roles that identify and define them. I have dealt with issues of violence against women, the gestational stage, and, above all, motherhood," she says, referring to the paths in which the realism of an image after pressing the shutter and digital art are making the way.
