The Burden of Guilt (El peso de la culpa)

"My work is a response to my cultural environment-a fusion of the personal and intimate with the collective and social in order to reflect upon culture, politics, ideology, and identity. In this way, the work is focused on the relationship between art and power, on change and human transformation as part of that dynamic. The materials I use include dirt and mud, spit, rocks, meat, lambs and lambskin, coffee, cotton, marble, letters and photographs, textiles, human hair, paper, wood, and objects lost and found on the streets of Havana. Ritual, myth, obsessive repetition for cathartic purposes, the fallacy of utopian proposals, intuition, death, and contemplation are all part of the structure of the series, The Burden of Guilt. Most recently, I have been focusing on submission and obedience as acts of social survival." - Tania Bruguera