“Objects completely deprived from the function they were created for are more beautiful. They seem unreal compared to the practical ones. They belong to the world of the irrational, that is, closer to the heart than to the mind. They are inherently beautiful. What is unreasonable becomes absurd. Words abandon us and only our eyes can speak.” — Diana Fonseca Quiñones
Diana Fonseca, a Cuban artist from Havana, is a poetic observer who obsessively dismantles the simple things and everyday events that surround her. With a lyrical and gestural sensibility, she captures fragments of reality and interweaves them into reflections on contemporary life, visual saturation, emptiness, and banality. Through installations, videos, paintings, and works with found and ephemeral materials, she transforms the provisional and the overlooked into profound meditations on transience, memory, fragility, and the quiet poetry of existence.