‘Opening of the exhibition The Way Beyond - Jorge Luis Álvarez Pupo’

A Cuban artist based in Belgium, Jorge Luis Álvarez Pupo conceives of art as an ongoing process, an eternal quest for oneself, one's identity and one's roots. Coming from a Haitian community taken to Cuba in the time of slavery, he inherited the respect for ancestors and oral traditions specific to West African cultures. In The Way Beyond, he draws on the body language of ceremonial dances to create his own imaginary and metaphorical visual world. This world-renowned artist has exhibited his works in Paris, Madrid, Bamako and New York, and some are in the collections of the Pinacoteca do Estado São Paulo and the Albertina in Vienna. During the CubaLandz festival, discover his photographs which are both personal in their cultural references, and universal in their depth and the questions which animate them.