Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Camagüey, September 9 – The young artist Asniel Salvador Herrera González (Chuli Herrera) returned to Camagüey after two years in which art took him to Madrid, Spain, and where he expanded his creative horizons, allowing him to create, design, and dream his visual work on paper.
"Las veces que morí" (The Times I Died), the text in question, is presented as an honest exercise in personal memory. Initially born as an academic work, the work transformed into an artist's book where the intimate experience of grief takes on an aesthetic and universal dimension.
Herrera, a former member of the Hermanos Saíz Association of Camagüey, offers a work based on the metaphor of fire and its ashes to explore the losses and rebirths that mark existence. His proposal, more than a linear narrative, is a fragmented and poetic construction where the autobiographical becomes a shared language.
The artist described the volume as “the compact ash of an entire fire that has outlived me.” This illustration captures the spirit of a book that embraces sincerity and vulnerability as forms of artistic resistance.
With Las veces que morí (The Times I Died), Chuli Herrera confirms the place of the new generations of Camagüey creators in contemporary Cuban literature, while opening a space for sensitive dialogue with readers, demonstrating that words, even from pain, can be an act of healing.
Chuli Herrera is a visual artist, now a writer and performer; he has developed a work in which photography, performance and audiovisual converge, always from an intimate and questioning perspective.
His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions both in Cuba and abroad, and he has found in the exploration of the autobiographical one of his main creative motivations. (Text and photos: Idaylén Rodríguez Rodríguez/Radio Cadena Agramonte)
