“...Juan Carlos Zaldívar provides the most emotionally charged piece [at Filtro Foto’s “Cuba: As Time Stands Still, 2007] a video installation about the Elián González debacle in 2000. On a split screen, viewers watch protest rallies taking place simultaneously in Cuba and Miami. At the Cuban rally, the crowd roars, “Freedom for Elián!” In Miami the protesters are shouting “Elián will not leave!” A revolutionary anthem is spliced with a pre-Revolution anthem. Interviews with a Miami student and a Cuban student, both in their school uniforms, play on split screens. The footage is choppy, and the competing sounds make it difficult to focus on particular statements, illustrating both the intensity and the complexity of the issue...”
April, 2007
- Victor Barrenechea of the Biscayne Times
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“You might say Juan Carlos Zaldivar is a master of reality. When you enter one of his exhibits ... the outside world suddenly seems very far away.”
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-Carlos Suarez de Jesús, The Miami New Times
“Delicate work ... that of an alchemist, transforming the ordinary. “
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-Susan Hopper, Deluxe Arts
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El Nuevo Herald
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