Juan Roberto Diago's "Barrio Adentro" constructs an autonomous micro-neighborhood entirely from the reclaimed detritus of Havana—raw wood, rusted metal, salvaged fabric, discarded boxes, and iron cauldrons—transmuting the city's material refuse into a self-sustaining urban organism that asserts the inner life of Cuba's marginal barrios as a site of unassailable cultural sovereignty. These makeshift dwellings, assembled with the same resourceful urgency as the informal settlements they mirror, function as living altars: the iron cauldrons serve as charged nkisi vessels holding ancestral force, the wooden heads act as vigilant oracular presences, and the layered, weathered surfaces embody the stratified histories of scarcity, displacement, and survival. Conceptually, the installation declares that the true barrio exists within—Barrio Adentro—as a defiant, self-contained cosmos where discarded materials become durable architecture, the profane is elevated to the ritual, and the wounds of diaspora, slavery, and revolutionary neglect are reconfigured into an enduring structure of resistance and spiritual autonomy.