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Galleria Continua La Habana presents Mientras el día no cierre (Until Daylight Fades), a group exhibition bringing together Cuba-based contemporary artists Henry Crespo, Sergio Marrero, Andy Mendoza, Harold Ramírez and Linet Sánchez. The show is on view from November 29, 2025 – February 21, 2026, and is conceived as a meditation on the liminal moment before nightfall—when light still lingers and creation remains possible. “The exhibition is conceived as a gesture of generosity and artistic collaboration, stemming from an invitation extended by the Cuban artists on the gallery’s roster to colleagues who reside and work on the island,” Galleria Continua notes in the press release.
The art exhibition takes place across two registers, opening first on November 2025 and returning in March 2026. For this initial chapter, Osvaldo González invites Crespo; José Mesías invites Marrero; José Yaque invites Mendoza; Elizabet Cerviño invites Ramírez; and Yoan Capote invites Sánchez. “These peer- to-peer invitations highlight affections, alliances and urgencies the artists have in common: to make visible and sustain that which remains, to create while it is still possible,” elaborates Continua.
In the gallery's main hall, two large-scale installations by Mendoza stand out for their poetic force. Fragments of Cuban rocking chairs intertwine with car tyres, generating a striking contrast in which the marks of daily life acquire sculptural delicacy. “His ‘jewels’ serve as metaphors for Cuban creativity and resilience: the ability to reinvent what is available, find beauty in limitation and breathe new life into what once seemed worn out,” shares the contemporary art gallery.
Ramírez presents Numeral, an art installation composed of hundreds of unused pigeon rings—numbered and chromatically varied—that rise in a straight line from the floor to one of the gallery’s structural beams. Originally intended for identification and control, the rings are reimagined as symbols of freedom. “By gathering them into a single line that ascends like a symbolic column, the artist reveals the quiet beauty that emerges when the individual transforms into a collective force,” Continua notes.
Crespo’s project, El último jardín (The Last Garden), draws inspiration from bougainvillaea flowers to explore repetition, memory and endurance. Known for their ability to bloom under adverse conditions, these plants become a metaphor for perseverance. “His garden stands as an intermediate space between what once was and the impending decay, also revealing lingering traces of the forgotten. The artist’s persistent brushstrokes reflect the resonance of memory and transform the anatomy of the sprouts into a visual leitmotif,” explains the gallery.
On the second floor, visitors encounter works from Marrero’s series Efecto Mariposa (Butterfly Effect). Through a process of creative automatism, the artist connects perception with memory and lived experience. Marrero pre-establishes a random duration for each work, allowing memories selected within that timeframe to dictate its visual structure. “His works document the passage of time: he records hours and days of labour, integrating this process as an essential element of the piece. The artwork becomes a journal where the natural, the fragmentary and the everyday engage in a harmonious dialogue,” notes Continua.
Sánchez presents a series of photographs inspired by spaces that are remembered, imagined or emotionally inhabited. White and seemingly empty, these scenes evoke absence and the constructed nature of memory rather than objective reality. Sánchez builds small-scale models from cardboard, wood and other materials, later photographing them to create images of plausible yet unreal places—territories where experience, desire and memory converge.
Until Daylight Fades celebrates creativity and resilience as vital impulses. “That day which has not yet ended is not merely a metaphor for time, but a suspended space where imagining, sustaining and resisting become inseparable acts; a territory in which artistic practice persists in spite of everything. The exhibition translates that perseverance into visual aesthetics that invites viewers to stay alert, to create and dream while light allows it, while daylight—and life—are still on,” concludes Continua.
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