This work is part of the Letargo series, in which Alejandro Campins explores the architectural typology of the bunker and its potential as an element of the landscape and as a material trace of the political history of a country. In this painting, Campins recreates an imagined scenario in which two bunkers, one from Cuba and the other from the United States, converge. The buildings, however, are not recreations of the artist’s mind; the gray bunker is based on a building in the Tarará area in Havana. The blue bunker recreates a construction found in Fort Tilden, New York. The strange coexistence of both buildings in the same space refers to the historical, ideological confrontation between the regions. Conflict or dialogue, power or ruins, militarization, or fossilization––these are dichotomies to which this scene could allude.

Campins graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in 2009. His work focuses on painting, particularly in the genre of landscape. Often stripped of human presence, his compositions combine storytelling and the re-creation of real spaces.