Scratched Surfaces, as Diamond against Crystal

Venue and Dates
Goodman Gallery
London, UK
25 June – 31 July, 2021

Scratched Surfaces, as Diamond against Crystal, was Carlos Garaicoa’s debut exhibition at Goodman
Gallery, London. Garaicoa is one of Cuba’s most significant contemporary artists. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Garaicoa addresses issues of culture and politics with a reflexive lens into architecture, urbanism and history. His work has been included in the Biennials of Havana (1991- 2019), São Paulo Biennale (1998, 2004, 2010), the first
Johannesburg Biennale (1995) as well as the Venice Biennale (2005, 2009, 2018), among others. In his essay, Between Apparatus and Subjectivity: Carlos Garaicoa’s Post-Utopian Architecture, Okwui Enwezor described his practice, “Garaicoa is perhaps one of the most significant artists of his generation to develop a sustained aesthetic and
analytical framework that would fuse the heritage of modern Cuban art and its complex political structure.”

Scratched Surfaces, as Diamond against Crystal, was a presentation of salient bodies of work that engage affective and temporal dimensions of landscape. The exhibition includes the project Memorias Intimas Marcas/ Intimate Memories: Marks which was initiated in 1996. As well as a new major project co-commissioned with DIDAC Art Foundation in
Santiago (Spain), Línea rota de horizonte/ Broken Line of Horizon (2021) exhibited for the first time in the UK.