The Cuban artist Dagoberto Rodríguez’s first solo exhibition brings together a series of works that revolve around the importance of the written word and its narrative and lyrical relevance, delving into an exploration of language and rhetoric using three apparently disconnected political and cultural phenomena.

A video uploaded to Twitter by combatants in the Syrian war showed a horrific and extremeact of faith: the dialogue held between two missile operators in the moment when one of them has just lost his hands. The chant-like structure of this conversation is reminiscent of Koranic verses. The artist captures this moment in a mosaic mural made using an ancestral Arabic tiling artisan technique, thus establishing a subtle contrast between the speed and volatility with which writing spreads on digital platforms and the traditional technique of carving messages into stone to make them last.... [+]