Per Metro is a new proposal of meaning in the creation of the artist of Cuban origin, resident in Costa Rica, Aimée Joaristi. It is a sui-generis piece that amalgamates in the same structure the installation, pictorial and object. The idea of this work appeared in Cuba with the encounter of the artist with its place of origin and through the sad confirmation of a reality captured by the most absolute shortcomings hidden behind the simulations of happiness that it promotes and sells through advertising devices and the political pamphlet. It is, in itself, a denunciation of the idea of saturation in some means and extreme poverty in others. The pictorial matter is transformed here into a susceptible support to social denunciation. Undoubtedly, to make from pictorial art a means of critical sensitivity, it is a pretty gutsy gesture. This roll, which inevitably refers to the roll of toilet paper, is the perfect metaphor to point out this permanent state of abjection and excrescence of which suffers the contemporary society in which there are no longer zones of tolerance and horizontal comfort. The non-discriminatory use of resources in in certain areas and the lack of these resources in others, outline a rather desolate and bleak panorama. X Metro is undoubtedly an echo of this serious symptom.

Andrés Isaac Santana