GONZALO LEBRIJA - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
For his exhibition at Museo Tamayo, Gonzalo Lebrija show pieces of his project Vía Láctea (Milkiway, 2016-17), for which he recoded and photographed a group of smokers in Havana while they were smoking tobacco of Vegas Robaina’s most selective production. With a beam of light that emphasizes the cigarette smoke, Lebrija depicts the changing shapes that the cuffs produce while exploring the sociopolitical relations that can be born from smoking, both from the juxtaposition between the characters and the legendary tobacco house, and from the smoker image itself as a figure that suggests power.