Kōan Jeff Baysa, MD (Founder of the Honolulu Biennial, and Creative Director of iBiennale), Alejandro Campins (visual artist), and Laura Salas Redondo (Art historian, curator and the book’s co-editor). Moderator: Niurma Pérez Zerpas (Director of the Galleria Continua Cuban venue and co-editor of the book). The book Return Journeys / Viajes de retorno, published by Hatje Cantz Publishing House, reviews the most important work series by Cuban artist Alejandro Campins. His paintings are the sedimentation of knowledge and journeys, imagined or real. Campins selects geographies, architectures and landscapes that were once scenes of splendor, prosperity, culture, wars or ideologies, but today remain as abandoned spaces, vandalized by hatred and forgotten by history. His paintings speak of impermanence, that state of a philosophical nature that demonstrates the relativity of values and the fragility of reality.
