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Cuba and Puerto Rico have been called “the two wings of the same bird”, yet the islands have opposite and complicated relationships with the United States. Cubans and Puerto Ricans share a basic culture and yet, our separate histories bring Puerto Ricans and Cubans to America from opposite ends of the spectrum : while Puerto Ricans migrate, Cubans exile.

Alejandro Mazon is Cuban, Lazarus Nazario is Puerto Rican. FLOWERS AND BULLETS IN THE BABEL OF STEEL is a creative collaboration between these two artists, working within a similar cultural background, yet opposite histories. While Nazario's work explores memories of her homeland as a residual time line, Mazon's deals with issues of displacement. Both artists are connected by the experience of living in America, yet separated by the circumstances that led them there.

Over the next year they will each produce a body of work exploring these issues, accompanied by a short film documenting their process. The entire project will consist of over 40 individual works including painting, mixed media and sculpture, and will be produced independently of each other only coming together at the time of it's completion.

For more information regarding Lazarus Nazario, please visit lazarusd.com

Curators or venues interested in more information regarding this project, please contact:
Studio tel. (646) 662-4957 info@alejandromazon.com or lazarus@usa.com