‘I was always interested in the paradoxes of the context that surrounds me, especially in a country where everything works in a surreal and illogical way. In Night Watch, a video I made in 2005, I had to steal wood from a state-owned carpentry in order to build a surveillance post for the same workshop’s security guard so that he would have the ideal conditions to monitor that carpentry. That’s when the concept of the “State” and its lack of commitment to work began to draw my attention.’
Excerpt from: CUBA TALKS: Interview with 28 contemporary artistsJérôme Sans and Laura Salas Redondo, 2019.