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Enrique Martínez Celaya

Enrique Martínez Celaya

Martinez Celaya, Enrique

Hardcover

Individual Artists

Publisher Price: $55.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN10: 3775758461
ISBN13: 9783775758468
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 96
Language: English

Martínez Celaya's interdisciplinary works meditate on themes of exile and the fantasy of return

This volume brings together three major exhibitions by the Cuban American painter Enrique Martínez Celaya (born 1964), each dedicated to Cuba: Los muertos llaman al alba, The Word-Shimmering Sea and The Sextant. Conceived across Havana, New York and Los Angeles, these installations offer a sustained reflection on exile and the possibility of return. The work moves from the imagined terrain of memory to the symbolic distance of the sea, culminating in the reconstruction of the artist's childhood home in sugar. Drawing on personal history and cultural memory, Martínez Celaya uses painting, sculpture and installation to examine displacement and belonging. These works engage with the emotional weight of Cuba while resisting fixed narratives, proposing instead a space where memory remains fragmented. Across these projects, the artist explores how identity is shaped through absence, rupture and the persistence of longing.

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