NEW YORK, NY.- From 10 November 2017 to 28 January 2018, Gallery Vallois America presents the exhibition "Intranautes" by Cuban artist Jorge Luis Miranda Carracedo.

Born in Havana in 1970, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in San Alejandro. Subsequently, he left Cuba to settle in Spain. In 2016 in Paris, he was exhibited at UNESCO where he paid tribute to Severiano de Heredia, a Franco-Cuban man of letters, science and politician, born in Havana, who was the only black mayor of Paris (1836-1901).

The exhibition "Intranautes" (inner journey in Latin) puts in perspective a panorama of the work of Carracedo gathering paintings, sculptures and works on paper, created from 2010 to today.

He skillfully passes from one technique and one support to another with such aptitude. He carries out small drawings with fine lines, from precious and light sculptures to large complex canvases.

Proceeding to an internal reflection, he creates a whole fantastic and dreamlike universe, populated by enigmatic humans, vegetables, animals that hybridize.

The work of Wifredo Lam, a major reference in Cuban painting, is echoed in his work, particularly in his landscapes.

The black figure symbolizes the alter ego of the artist, Africa occupying a major place in Cuban culture.

In addition, the artist also creates a figure outfitted in an incomplete cosmonaut outfit for a journey into space. It is a journey inside, the title of the exhibition presented. At the same time, his skyscrapers questioned the meaning of modernity.

Writing systematically crisscrosses his work, painted and carved. The French, Spanish or English language to which he resorts echoes the miscegenation that is dear to him. Carracedo uses humor as disguise to relate to his origins and to raise the existential question of the place of man in the universe.