FROHE ZUKUNFT

HAPPY FUTURE

Site specific intervention

printing on wood
2023

The fears of starting a new life, of leaving the context we know and settling in a new social system, are fears that haunt Cuban migrants. Socialism is all we have known for many years and the shock with new contexts makes our existence full of fears because legally it is a long and painful road to become part of a new country and a new social system. We live the fear of being deported, of being returned, we live the pain of moving away from our family without knowing exactly when we will return home and give a kiss to our loved ones. We pursue the promise of a happy and prosperous future, a dream that is fraught with sacrifice.  The slaughterhouse, is that place that became familiar to me in Halle (Saale), a sad remnant of the socialism and division that also lived through this land that today welcomes me. Somehow my personal history intersects with German history itself and brings me to pursue my own sad promise of a happy future.