Bio
Hamlet
Lavastida’s sophisticated artistic proposal focuses on the field of
history, ideology, and collective memory. The artist is interested in
the diagnosis and the reconstruction of a particular iconographic
memory associated with the ideological notion of "prophylaxis,"
wielded by the Cuban Revolution of 1959 as an indoctrination tool
aimed at the conversion of the individual in the long awaited
archetype of the “New Man.”
Hamlet
Lavastida (b. 1983, Havana, Cuba) graduated from the Superior
Institute of Art in Havana, 2009. He has received the following
residences: A-I-R Laboratory, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Zamek
Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland (2012); Residencia PERRO
Aglutinador-Laboratorio, Havana, Cuba (2008), and El estado somos
nosotros. Tejadillo #214 Studio, Havana, Cuba (2006). His work has
been exhibited at the Center of Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk,
Poland; Links Hall, Chicago, US; The 8th Floor, New York, US; Centro
Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba, and Pontevedra Museum, Galicia, Spain;
Gallery Gentil Carioca, Rio do Janeiro, Brazil; and Nippon
International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo, Kawagushi, Moriya,
Nagano, Japan; among others.
