The title references the “El Fanguito” shantytown in Havana — a marginal settlement, emblematic of precarious housing conditions in urban Cuba. With this installation, Diago constructs a miniature version of informal city life, evoking accumulation, precarity, everyday resilience of communities that exist on the fringes.

The material choices — salvaged wood, discarded elements — accentuate the social critique: reuse indicates economies of scarcity, limited resources, communal resourcefulness. Meanwhile, the clustering of houses at small scale produces a visual effect of density, overcrowding, a fragmented but collective human fabric.

Here, Diago explores memory, urban invisibility, the persistence of historical neglect and marginalization. The handmade nature of the houses evokes craftsmanship, intimacy, communal life; the aggregation evokes the collective, the neighborhood. The result is a meditation on who builds the city, who inhabits it, and which stories lie excluded from the dominant narrative.