For years, Alfredo Ramos Fernandez has devoted his work to relics of human activity in public space, drawing conclusions about the contradictions between social promises and their realization. Local Blindness explores the remnants of mass celebratory events outside his homeland of Cuba. These are moments in which people express themselves anonymously – hence in a freer, more uninhibited way than in everyday life. Even more than fun, or parallel to it, the possibility of anonymity seems to rouse something in the depths of the human psyche, something that compels us to acts of temporary rebellion. Because transposing the everyday burden of ‘normality’ to its opposite indirectly makes a kind of collective catharsis possible, one that leaves its mark.

The result is an installation of window blinds composed of images of these remnants. In general, blinds or curtains serve as a protective barrier from the outside or as a light filter that alters the perception of those on the other side. In this work, the filter is impregnated with the content of the outside as a metaphor to generate a response within the viewer.