Profile (Profile)

"Profile" is a portrait, more psychological than physical, of someone who we don't know his identity yet. This work makes a parody of police profile which links small pieces of information to characterize a specific person that they are looking for. The source material is the book "One hundred hours with Fidel" by Ignacio Ramonet.

0- His home (in Biran) 1- His hero (Napoleon Bonaparte) 2- His parents (Lina and Angel) 3- His envy (Eduardo Chivas) 4- His first born son (Fidel Castro Dias Balar) 5- His excuse (Jose Marti) 6- His secret (Celia Sanchez) 7- His addiction (the microphones) 8- His promise (to have his beard shaved when the problems of the Cuban people are solved) 9- His hidden enemy (Richard Nixon) 10- His plan B (Nikita Khrushchev) 11- His victory (the sinking of the Houston when it landed at the Bay of Pigs in 1961) 12- His other (Che Guevara) 13- His defeat (the sugar harvest of 1970; he produced 8 million tons of sugar instead of 10) 14- His favorite actor (Cantinflas) 15- His sacrifice (quitting smoking) 16- His nightmare (the dollarization of Cuba) 17- His trophy (Elian Gonzalez) 18- His successor (Raul Castro) 19- His guarantor (Simon Bolivar) 20- His fight (sending doctors, not soldiers, all over the world / his present situation) 21- His longing (walking on the Malecon, sitting, fishing, enjoying it as if he were unknown)

• Materials: Portfolio of 24 digital images on card stock
• Size: 15 x 9 cm
• Year: 2014
• Inventory #: 17-31
• Artist: José Toirac