Meanwhile, a close-up shows an eighty-year-old man with a crippled hip, due to a work accident after his retirement, almost blind and totally dependent on his daughters and grandchildren. He would persist obsessively in his ideal until his dying day. His attitude in front of the camera is one of pride, though also of deep introspection or obstinacy.

Diplomas, medals, prizes awarded to the old man by various Cuban political organisations over 46 years of revolution, spectacles, cigarette case, all digitalized to form part of the interactive display, in which the spectator can touch the screen to obtain information about the selected object.

The installation is like an altar, the old man as a martyr – blind and acclaimed in his old age – whose only point of reference today is a dream of past grandeur and devotion to the idea of a revolution. One of the questions he most often asked was: “My friend, when are we going to improve?”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sandra Sosa