Dissociation - Havana
I have created this serie as Havana appears to me as a suspended territory, a fragile threshold between reality and dream. The pastel facades, worn by time, dissolve into one another like fading recollections: peaches, pale blues, mint greens, muted yellows. These colors are not decorative; they are emotional residues, traces of lives lived beneath their surface. Behind this delicate palette lies a harsher truth. Daily life in Havana is marked by constraint, resilience, and repetition. Yet the city breathes through its ability to endure, to remain upright, to continue dreaming. Photography becomes, for me, a space of projection a way to transform reality without denying it. While working, I often imagined myself as a Cuban woman inhabiting these spaces. What would it mean to live inside these walls, to walk these streets every day? How would one escape, if not physically, then inwardly? I believe that dreaming becomes a form of survival an intimate resistance against limitation. My images are shaped by this idea: that imagination can soften reality, that beauty can exist as refuge, not illusion. By blurring the line between documentary and reverie, I seek to create images that feel almost touchable, yet distant like a memory that never fully belonged to us. Havana, in my work, is not a destination, but a state of mind: a place where hardship and poetry coexist, where dreaming is not an escape from life, but a way of enduring it.
