A graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana in 1994, Esterio Segura has developed an indirect, or subtle, idiom in works that generally relate to the social situation in Cuba. Many of his drawings and sculptures evidence the heterogeneous interchangeability of political, religious, and cultural signs, which he then employs in order to parody Cuba’s current situation and its history.
Mover el cielo con el alma is a prayer in the face of social despondency, an ode to human strength and the will to make dreams reality. Segura draws a human figure with extended arms on which windmills stand, thus raising existential questions that can be answered only by the work’s viewers as they meditate on the risks and sacrifices that stand between happiness and the impossibilities we are constantly faced with.
Identification
Title
Mover el cielo con el alma (Move the Heavens with Your Soul)
Production Date
2002
Object Number
2017.182
Credit Line
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. Pérez