Visual Arts. The Cuban artist Ernesto Benítez does not hide his interest in dusting off and taking up again different symbols already coined and legitimated by Western tradition in order to confront them with the new archetypes and liturgical paraphernalia of post-modernity in an attempt to establish a constant tension of memory. Hence, photography, ephemeral installation proposals, environmental installation (site-specific art), clandestine actions or net art, among others, are excellent allies to focus the gaze on the psychology of the ubiquitous (omnipresent) man in the digital or information -not knowledge- era. After a period of retreat and recollection that Ernesto Benítez refers to as Seven Days of Silence, Ab æternō (Open Studio) takes up again a set of emblematic works of the author together with a selection of new proposals that warn the paths of his current artistic praxis…
