Alexandrae Arrecha

Born in Trinidad, Cuba in 1970, Arrechea graduated in Fine Arts from Cuba’s Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in 1994. He, then went on to work from 1994 until 2003 as a member of the highly successful art collective Los Carpinteros. Arrechea has participated in group exhibitions at art biennales such as Shanghai (2002), Venice (2005, 2011), Moscow and Havana (2009), and Havana (2012); and also presented multiple solo exhibitions like his 2015 Mapa del Silencio (The Map of Silence) which featured at Havana’s 12th Biennial.

Compulsively, Arrechea turns the sophistication and plasticity of his epic drawings into even grander installations that range from 2005’s El jardin de la desconfianza (The Garden of Mistrust), to 2010’s La habitación de todos (The Room of All), a sculpture of a house that expands or contracts depending on the fluctuations of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, to 2013’s No Limits, which exhibited on New York’s Park Avenue. His stridently playful commentary on the damaged condition of Afro-descendants is loud in 2016’s Katrina Chairs, the center art piece of this year’s Coachella Music Festival. His most recent show Denied Hierachies opened in Havana this Ma