Feb 15, 2025

La Cometa

Glenda Leon: Only Lovers

December 1, 2024

In accepting divisions—between nations, humans, nature, and even within our bodies—we ignore the interconnectedness of all things. This disconnection, this lack of understanding of meaningful relationships, may lie at the root of so many problems: health issues, communication barriers, intolerance, and unhappiness.

National policies meticulously construct these divisions, creating distances and reinforcing the illusion that borders are necessary. These separations are used as control tools to cultivate habits, and evolution can begin with the possibility of breaking them.

Cuban artist Glenda León (Havana, 1976) seeks to dismantle these distances, to render them unnecessary. León draws attention, in particular, to how Cuban immigration to Miami has resulted in constructing an imagined Havana within this new city. The houses, businesses, and restaurants—bearing names and appearances that mirror those of the homeland—generate an illusory sense of ubiquity (to be in Miami and Havana at once, or perhaps in neither).

In this predicament, laden with the suffering of those who leave their homes, their families, and their loved ones—of those who have perished in search of a new life—León makes a decision: to choose the path of love, which is none other than the path of healing.

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About La Cometa

La Cometa is a project-based space designed to facilitate relationships between the viewer, the works of art, and the artists. Galería La Cometa was founded over 35 years ago to contribute to the development of the local art scene. Since then, the gallery has been an exhibition space whose mission focuses on the representation, promotion and dissemination of mainly Latin American artists, becoming one of the most influential artistic platforms in the region. Today, La Cometa has four offices in three countries: Colombia (Bogotá and Medellín), Spain (Madrid) and the USA (Miami). La Cometa is a project-based space designed to facilitate relationships between the viewer, the works of art, and the artists, through various expressions of contemporary art. In addition, the gallery’s program seeks to incorporate Latin American Modern Art references, which provide a fundamental context for contemporary artistic creation. The team at Galería La Cometa is proud to present these important projects so that we may align with our mission and exhibit the most influential Ibero-American Modern and Contemporary Art to the world.
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