Wendy Guerra

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Wendy Guerra

This hall is my favourite place, because I feel that the person who was the curator of this hall captured a very strong sentimental moment in time, which was when they closed all the exhibitions. This woman who was the curator was able to open the doors.

The small Cuban classic geniuses, who are already classics, you mentioned Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) in New York, and you see people opening a gallery for them. And when these little classic people were unknown, they found a place in their country. That would be my dream, that this would happen with writers and that we could all publish our works and have a personal museum in a bookshop. And that we would all be there, those of us who are known, those of us who have won no prizes, those of us who have, all of us in one place so that people could read our works. This has been achieved by the Museum and also by Cuba to some extent. To have a place to reconcile what we believe with what the establishment can actually allow. It is like a sort of balance, a balance between what should be done and what can be done.