The exhibition is organised in the context of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 27 November 2025 — A total of 63 artists from Cuba and countries such as Argentina, Spain and Mexico highlight the fight against gender violence from multiple perspectives in the collective exhibition ‘También fui otra: MásCaras’ [I was also another: MásCaras], which opened on Wednesday in Havana.
The exhibition, organised in the context of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, “aims to pay tribute to women who, historically, had to use pseudonyms to publish their works,” Diana Pedraza, who shares the curatorship with art critic Alay Fuentes, explained to EFE.
Pedraza, who is also exhibiting a photograph, added that “the tribute is from a contemporary perspective, through photographs, paintings and performances”.
The exhibition “aims to pay tribute to women who, historically, had to use pseudonyms to publish their works”.
It’s about the masks they had to wear in order to transcend,” added the young artist.
I was also someone else: MásCaras’, promoted by the cultural arts enterprise Women’s Society, will remain on display for a month at the National Office of Industrial Design in Havana.
The collective exhibition respects the project’s vision of combining established artists such as Cuba’s Zaida del Río (National Prize for Plastic Arts 2023) with other newcomers such as photographers Vida Winter and Claudia Raymat.
In the case of the former, she arrives at the exhibition with the piece ‘Impermanencias del ser’ (Impermanence of Being), with a message: “Don’t be afraid to show ourselves as we are: women.”
Claudia Raymat, meanwhile, defends in her work ‘To be or not to be’ “the sensuality of women, their sweetness, but also their strength”.
Translated by GH
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