Sabrina Fanego
Sabrina Fanego is an emerging artist born and based in Havana. Her work investigates concepts related to the primordial, with an emphasis on Cuba's indigenous past. She explores fields such as mythology, archaeology, and speleology, from a perspective where the scientific and the poetic intertwine with the personal. Her practice favors sculpture and installation, experimenting with a wide range of materials.
She studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Havana. After graduating, she worked for a time at the Archaeology Museum of the Office of the Historian of Havana. She has exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Ceramics of Cuba and other venues as part of group exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition, piedras que caben en la boca (stones that fit in the mouth), took place at ONA Galería, Havana, between December 2024 and January 2025.
artist statement
My work primarily explores the issue of the origin, both historically and personally. I investigate specific topics such as the indigenous cultures of Cuba and the Caribbean: their myths, practices, and material records; based on this, I project that past into my present. I have always been moved by the poetic and aesthetic dimension of archaeology, but the reasons I find that "genetic vertebra" are of various natures. This inquiry necessarily addresses universal issues such as the passage of time, the inexorable decay of things, loss, and death, so the works are situated in that threshold that connects the earliest realities with the last. The working process is nourished both by readings and by travels to sites of interest. I am interested in maintaining a practice that attends to the intuitive, the symbolism of images, and experimentation with media and materials.
