THE LIGHT IN CUBAN EYES
The Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection
of Contemporary Cuban Photography
Lissette Solórzano
1994, 1/10 from the series Made in Cuba gelatin silver print 9 1/4 x 14”
2000, 1/10 from the series Made in Cuba gelatin silver print 9 1/2 x 14”
2002, A/P from the series Ferro-carril gelatin silver print 11 x 16 3/4”
2004, 4/5 from the series Malecón digital print 22 x 30 3/4”
2008, 3/10 from the series Urban Landscape, The Habitat Project 20 x 28”
2009, 2/10 from the series Erase Una vez una matrioshka digital print 25 3/4 x 18 7/8”
2012, 2/5 from the series Atmósferas limital digital print 17 x 26”
2013, 2/2 from the series Metáfora de silencio digital color print (diptych) 35 x 26 1/2”
2013, 1/5 from the series Metáfora de silencio digital color print 16 x 20”
2014, 1/3 from the series Murales digital pigment print 22 x 29 1/2”
2016, 1/5 from the series Linieros digital pigment print 10 1/2 x 12’’
Artist Statement
Observation and recognition of physical spaces or traces of people going about their daily life influence my photography. Through the objects and spaces I portray, I expose the richness of detail in a broad range of sensations that delight with texture and matter, which for me undeniably affect the pieces at the formal level. There comes a time where my work begins to abandon narration to enter into that new land where a poetics of the simple reigns. I try to document all the fragments that make up a person’s life, and I emphasize them through expression, and in a scale that is precisely equal to how a person uses them.