90 MILES
first performed on June 12, 2018
Pique Gallery, Covington, KY
performed twice in 2018
YALI ROMAGOZA
Queens, NY / Havana, Cuba
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90 MILES
YALI ROMAGOZA
As Cuquita the Cuban Doll (my alter-ego), I sit immobile in an open suitcase, the one with which I traveled from Havana to Miami in 2011. It displays all the personal belongings that accompanied me in my travel: family letters, my one-way Havana to Miami plane ticket, artworks from my lover, photographs, costumes from performances, a Granma newspaper with a statement of what the Cuban Revolution embodies. “90 miles” reflects on my experience as a recent immigrant exploring universal displacement and trauma.