Looking at the city from the sewer. (Post) urban fictions

Abstract

The article intends to investigate the (post) urban figurations of the city Havana from the productions of two cuban artists: a sample of the plastic artista, Carlos Garaicoa, Epifanías urbanas (2017) and the book of stories by the writer Jorge Angel Pérez,  En la Habana no son tan elegantes (2012).In both cases, it is posible t oread these heterogeneous textures in terms of forms of (post)urban dystopia linked to a series of images of device that frecuently reappear in the plastic arts and the contemporany literatura as fictions of “after the after” (De la campa, 2017, p. 33). They are stories that not only deconstruct the modulations of the modernazing myth of the Latin American city, but also advance towards an aesthetic-cosmological inflections that rereads and disorganizes the system of dichotomies with wich traditions processed the link between the creative subject and the urban landscape. My hypothesis is that the figurations of the city, seen and imagined from the decentered place of the sewer, produce a centrifugal moviment on the imagine archive of the city, turning the figurations into synecdoches of los and the squint since, while city, Havana has scaped from its founding protocols, it has also scaped from the genealogy of the mythical Latin American cities (Macondo, Santa María). Then, the oblique gaze of art, form the becoming sewer (of city itself but also the place of gaze), processes its opacity.