Mabel Poblet Studio

Mabel Poblet: What does all the blue in the sea have that the sky doesn’t?
By Claudia Taboada




Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce What Does All the Blue in the Sea Have that the Sky Doesn’t?, a solo exhibition by Mabel Poblet, a Cuban artist who lives and works between Havana, Miami, and Madrid. The exhibition includes a large volume of works previously exhibited in the show Where the Oceans Meet, held by the artist at Chanel Nexus Hall, an art center in Tokyo, Japan, focused on showcasing contemporary photography.

What does all the blue in the sea have that the sky doesn’t? becomes a “mirror-exhibition” in which the images of all emigrants are reflected. It contemplates the parallels between their physical and mental journey. In the middle of the ocean, everything becomes confusing, immeasurable, and incomprehensible. Deliriums overshadow reason, and misfortune becomes a beautiful and yearned path. The color blue, with its origin in the scattering of light in the atmosphere and its omnipresent prominence in the sea, becomes a powerful symbol of the journeys made across vast bodies of water in search of a new home. For Poblet, whose focus has been migration presented from the perspective of beauty, the blue of the sea represents both the challenges and hopes of the eternal pursuit of dreams and goals. This exhibition will feature works from the series My Autumn, Homeland, and Travel Diary, as well as the video installation “Sublimation” from the series Buoyancy.

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Mabel Poblet: What does all the blue in the sea have that the sky doesn’t?
By Claudia Taboada




Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce What Does All the Blue in the Sea Have that the Sky Doesn’t?, a solo exhibition by Mabel Poblet, a Cuban artist who lives and works between Havana, Miami, and Madrid. The exhibition includes a large volume of works previously exhibited in the show Where the Oceans Meet, held by the artist at Chanel Nexus Hall, an art center in Tokyo, Japan, focused on showcasing contemporary photography.

What does all the blue in the sea have that the sky doesn’t? becomes a “mirror-exhibition” in which the images of all emigrants are reflected. It contemplates the parallels between their physical and mental journey. In the middle of the ocean, everything becomes confusing, immeasurable, and incomprehensible. Deliriums overshadow reason, and misfortune becomes a beautiful and yearned path. The color blue, with its origin in the scattering of light in the atmosphere and its omnipresent prominence in the sea, becomes a powerful symbol of the journeys made across vast bodies of water in search of a new home. For Poblet, whose focus has been migration presented from the perspective of beauty, the blue of the sea represents both the challenges and hopes of the eternal pursuit of dreams and goals. This exhibition will feature works from the series My Autumn, Homeland, and Travel Diary, as well as the video installation “Sublimation” from the series Buoyancy.



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What Does All the Blue in the Sea Have that the Sky Doesn’t?
by Cuban artist Mabel Poblet
Curated by Claudia Taboada, 2024
Presented by Pan American Art Projects

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IN / OUT — Patria Series

To leave is to open a wound on the map.
To return is to try to name it.

Between these two gestures, transit exists:
that suspended place where memory weighs
and desire pushes forward.

The circles are not forms,
they are paths—
repetitions of the same,
reflections of who we were
and who we are no longer.

The mirror does not return an image,
it returns questions:

Who returns?
From where?
To what place?

The sea —even when unseen— is present:
as distance,
as risk,
as everything that separates and transforms.

This work is not meant to be observed,
but to be crossed.

Because there are journeys that do not end upon arrival,
and returns that are never complete.

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