In the first ten years after Fidel Castro fell ill in 2006 and passed his command over Cuba to his brother Raúl Castro, publicly displayed signs like this—announcing a gallery show by artist Duvier del Dago—were as irreverent as they were uncommon. The title of del Dago’s exhibit, “History belongs to whoever tells it,” gestures clearly but also carefully to the reality that fifty years of one-man, one-party rule had yielded a singular story that said more about the state than the history of Cuba. Havana, 2016.
