Ramón "Monchi" Reyes
a tobacco-drying village in rural Cuba
Ramón "Monchi" Reyes starts each day before dawn, woven into the tapestry of a tobacco-drying village outside Pinar del Río. With the trusted weight of an empty bus tank in his hands and shadows guiding his intuition, Monchi ensures the bus chugs forth, linking livelihoods and keeping the heartbeats of the village in sync. Each evening, he contemplates the intricacies of lingering shadows, transforming them into stories that reach beyond the terminal.
Defining Work
About
Obsession
The way power-line shadows resemble musical notation crossing cobbled plazas during the daily sun arc.
Voice
Resonance through palpable shadows and echoes.
Artistic Medium
Found metals and tobacco leaves amalgamated into panels.
Technique
Weaving shadows into pressed textures.
Influences
Rural Cuban landscapes, rhythms of daily bus schedules, fleeting conversations exchanged on journeys.
Materials
Discarded megaphone parts, old bus grill scraps, patterned tobacco leaves, rusty steel, jute from transport sacks.
Scale
Panels sized akin to a bus window, framing a piece of the external world.
Selected 1 time · Last: February 28, 2026
