Since the ancient time, lefthanders or southpaws were repressed and obliged to use the right hand, a situation that often led to physical or psychological manipulation in terms of genetic and cognitive origin. This pejorative behavior attached to the socio-cultural practice of what was supposed to be right or good quickly put lefties “on the opposite side of God’s will.”
The left side has also be defined as a concept to denominate certain social processes interested in working out differences among men and even to name some “dark” behaviors and procedures usually repressed by society.
Trapped in so many questions and inquiries on this topic, Siniestros (Southpaws) comes up. From a ludicrous standpoint, this exhibition project attempts to establish a talk with the many sides of the artistic discourses of the lefthanders involved in the project. Their poetics face off the risk of settling its score with history. For this occasion, the participating artists resort to numerous formats and forms of expressions to bring up the contemporary. Installation, video, photography, drawing and painting give free rein to creative postures that redraw the multitude of topics.
(Excerpts from the catalog’s forewords penned by Clarissa Crive and Idalma Fontirroche, curators with the Habana Gallery)
Habana Gallery
Calle Linea, e/ E y F, Vedado, Havana
