The Bamboo Strategy, a proposal by artist Felipe Dulzaides at the Cuban Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts, transcends the limits of a conventional exhibition. Conceived as a "visual essay," in the words of curator Jorge Fernández, the exhibition is part of a territory where the image is not intended to be passively contemplated, but rather to provoke a reflective, almost literary experience. It’s a sensorial and conceptual journey that eschews decorative formalism to establish itself in a zone of suggestion.

Dulzaides works from a conceptual logic in which common, seemingly neutral objects acquire a new dimension when displaced from their usual context. This operation transforms the everyday into a sign, and the anecdotal into a symbol. This is not just conceptual art, but a poetic exercise that escapes the pamphleteering and evades the obvious, inviting the viewer to actively engage in the construction of meaning.

One of the most interesting features of this artistic strategy is the way it subtly addresses social, political, and cultural issues surrounding it. It does so without directly naming them, wrapping them in a layer of metaphors that opens up multiple levels of interpretation. Rather than closing the discourse, it expands it: it proposes more than affirms, suggests more than denounces, and leaves room for personal interpretation.

Bamboo, more than a motif, functions as a metaphor for an ethical and aesthetic stance: flexibility, resilience, adaptability. Dulzaides's work illuminates forgotten areas of the domestic, the ordinary, the seemingly insignificant, revealing unexpected connections. The bamboo strategy does not seek to please, but rather to move through subtlety. The exhibition will remain open to the public until September.

Translated by Amilkal Labañino / CubaSí Translation Staff