Cirenaica Moreira

Cirenaica Moreira was born in Havana, Cuba in 1969 and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana with a focus in the performing arts, which is strongly reflected in her tableau-like photographs, with the artist herself playing the lead role. She is considered by many to be one of the most influential Cuban photographers of her generation.
Art critic and writer Armando Suárez-Cobián has written that
"Cirenaica is not only the physical protagonist of her work but also the metaphor for those she dreams. Cirenaica has constructed a being that transcends her, she has converted her body into a place where all the women she is, gather together to knit and conspire. That duality has become destiny. The created characters have profiled her femininity in a way that fluctuates between the quiet knitter spinning thread who dreams and waits, and, at the same time, is being dreamed of and is exposed. And dreamed of in her delirium, she is diluted in the grace of the water. She is revealed in the silent violence of the light that burns and darkens when it falls directly, and is converted into sharpened metal that united with the dreamed bodies, cuts when they are caressed."
American critic Richard Speer has been a little more succint by describing her photographs as "This is woman as vagina dentata: dangerous and delectable."
"I am my expression...my own position...my own political party" (C.M.)

"Oración", poema de la nicaragüense Yolanda Blanco
(tomado del poemario Aposentos, Caracas, Venezuela, 1985 |
Fotografías: de la fotógrafa cubana Cirenaica Moreira)


Oración - poema video from Yolanda Blanco on Vimeo.

CIRENAICA MOREIRA “Freedom is a huge word”

Homenaje Joaquin Blez (1996)

© Cirenaica Moreira- untitled-1996.

“La Venganza es un plato que se sirve frio”