On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art

This paper examines text-based artworks that employ symbolic translations as a way of analyzing the discursive constrains regulating the Cuban public sphere. Through a revision of artistic projects that turn to translation and intend to provoke the spectator’s active engagement, I seek to understand...

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Autor principal:	Carlos Garrido Castellano
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	ES
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015
Materias:	Caribbean Conceptualism Contemporary Art Cuba Curatorial Politics Visual Translation French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature PQ1-3999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fe7974679f02491dbe553c45f5bc76f52021-11-22T16:57:56ZOn Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art10.5565/rev/mitologias.2872014-1130https://doaj.org/article/fe7974679f02491dbe553c45f5bc76f52015-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/287https://doaj.org/toc/2014-1130This paper examines text-based artworks that employ symbolic translations as a way of analyzing the discursive constrains regulating the Cuban public sphere. Through a revision of artistic projects that turn to translation and intend to provoke the spectator’s active engagement, I seek to understand which possibilities are opened by translation in order to escape the burdens of representation and commoditization shaping contemporary Cuban art. I argue that the encouragement of direct experience could be framed as that possible alternative. The potential attributed to experience and practicality, nevertheless, cannot be directly deduced from the artist’s intentions, being contingent ultimately of how each project works.Carlos Garrido CastellanoUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleCaribbeanConceptualismContemporary ArtCubaCuratorial PoliticsVisual TranslationFrench literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literaturePQ1-3999ESMitologías Hoy, Vol 12 (2015)
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topic	Caribbean Conceptualism Contemporary Art Cuba Curatorial Politics Visual Translation French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature PQ1-3999
spellingShingle	Caribbean Conceptualism Contemporary Art Cuba Curatorial Politics Visual Translation French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature PQ1-3999 Carlos Garrido Castellano On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art
description	This paper examines text-based artworks that employ symbolic translations as a way of analyzing the discursive constrains regulating the Cuban public sphere. Through a revision of artistic projects that turn to translation and intend to provoke the spectator’s active engagement, I seek to understand which possibilities are opened by translation in order to escape the burdens of representation and commoditization shaping contemporary Cuban art. I argue that the encouragement of direct experience could be framed as that possible alternative. The potential attributed to experience and practicality, nevertheless, cannot be directly deduced from the artist’s intentions, being contingent ultimately of how each project works.
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title	On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art
title_short	On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art
title_full	On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art
title_fullStr	On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art
title_full_unstemmed	On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art
title_sort	on truth and opacity. symbolic translation and legibility in contemporary text-based cuban art
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On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art

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