The return of the Cuban emigrant artist María Magdalena Campos Pons to the artistic panorama of Cuba

Abstract

In 2012, the personal exhibition 1478 MB of the Cuban artist residing in the United States, María Magdalena Campos Pons, took place at Casa de las Americas, a famous institution Cuba. The exhibition was Magdalena's first in Cuba after emigrating 21 years ago and the overwhelming fact of her reintegration into the island's art circuit. The Cuban artist shows the connection with her genealogical past and the return to her native land after emigrating. In this way, the artist links her memory and dialogue about the conformation of a multicultural subject. Her discourse is amplified and is related to her work. María Magdalena Campos Pons is known in Cuba for the incorporation of reflective states and other codes fostered by experiential processes such as her migration and cultural exchange, which the artist somehow treated from a rereading of the history of the Cuban nation.

Keywords: art, exhibition, migration, return, memory.