Images Index. It consists on a review of the Cuban 19th century. To assume the jungle and the undergrowth as the botanical garden of the homeland. To flow over the fabric of facts and dates. Leave trails or reading sketches (index) as probable entrances to that territory. Repertoire that draws from other repertoires: The book of paintings by José Antonio Aponte and the Alphabetical Index and Deaths of the Cuban Liberation Army by Carlos Roloff; El Monte by Lydia Cabrera and Undesirable Plants by Pedro Sánchez and Haroldo Uranga; Dictionary of Cubanisms or Antillanisms by Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Esteban Pichardo, Fernando Ortiz; the Cuban Mythology of Samuel Feijóo. Mapping the imagery of the independence wars, their key representations.

Take advantage of the blind zones of the map and anchor these guesses (images) there. Between the scientism and vehemence, details and uncertainty grow. A cabinet or room of wonders where the findings (artificial, natural, exotic and scientific) are grouped from the explorations of travelers, delights of the curious and collectors: missing pieces or pages questioned by museums, archives, libraries, myths, passages, phrases, nightmares, relics, fetishes, portraits painted by mamory. The symbolic architecture of the nation project. To go back to the foundation stones. To deconstruct what is sculpted as truth, multiply the stories in countless possibilities.