Rachel Valdés

This interactive cube-shaped installation allows the public to enter and observe the space through blue glass.

This shift in perception of our surroundings allows us to explore the limits of our perception and the experience produced by interacting with new forms that distort reality.

Blue is a prominent color in the artist’s work, reflecting her way of sharing her vision of the world.

The installation was created for the 12th Havana Biennial in 2015. Has been permanently located at the Castillo de San Salvador de La Punta in Havana, Cuba, since 2015.

With Happily Ever After , Rachel Valdés presents a work that disrupts conventional ways of seeing and inhabiting public space.

Using large mirrored surfaces, the artist creates a perceptual device that alters the relationship between the viewer, architecture, and the urban landscape.

The installation was originally conceived for Havana’s Malecón during the 11th Biennial.

Where it engaged with the sea as a symbol of infinity, boundary, and desire. In its new location in the city of Kortrijk, the work is reborn with a distinct yet equally poetic resonance.

Rachel Valdés’s ” The Thinker” is a work that precisely and poetically recreates one of the artist’s great obsessions: the dialogue between the individual, the object, and the landscape. Commissioned by the Cigarral de Menores Foundation (Gregorio Marañón) in Toledo, this piece consists of a mirrored cubic structure that becomes a perceptual device, transforming space and revealing it from multiple dimensions.

This is Rachel Valdés’s first large-format installation.

It is part of the “Reality” project, in which works that introduce new spatial perspectives create different dialogues between objective and subjective reality—lines that define our existence and the space we inhabit.

The installation was created for the 9th Havana Biennial in 2012.

Was located on Havana’s Malecón. It has also been part of the ” Behind the Wall ” project.

“Eternity” is an immersive piece that invites the viewer to experiment with their senses and perception.

Created with materials that are already recurring in Rachel’s work, such as mirrors, steel, and projection. The piece contains a series of surreal scenes reminiscent of landscapes and the different states of environmental change, as well as various elements like water and earth.

These images, accompanied by sounds, constantly transform the atmosphere of the installation.

All these resources are used to provide a unique experience that prompts reflection on human existence, incorporating the viewer as a fundamental part of the piece.

“Through these scenarios, I am interested in working and experimenting with the senses, primarily sight and hearing.

I seek to create a dialogue, a state of connection and presence between your own being and the space”.

This is an interactive installation that explores perception, light, and color.

The work offers total immersion, generating a sensory experience for the visitor through the interplay of colors projected in the space.

Artist Rachel Valdés created this immersive piece for the 12th Havana Biennial in 2015.

This work by Rachel Valdés for public space is based on the idea of ​​creating environments, bridges that extend beyond reality and, at the same time, allow us to delve deeper into it through visual dialogues, distortions, and chromatic changes within a scene.

The idea is to raise awareness of the space we inhabit, but also to break down barriers and reveal windows to new horizons.

This work is a continuation of her artistic project “Reality,” which she has been developing for the past eight years.

The installation was created to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, Cuba, as part of the 13th Havana Biennial.

It has been permanently located on Avenida del Puerto in the city since 2019.

The installation seeks to create an immersive dialogue between the viewer, the artwork, and the surrounding natural space.

Through a series of mirrored panels distributed throughout the natural landscape, the viewer is confronted with a multifaceted reality that reflects on nature and social drift.

This piece was created in 2016 in Utah, USA.

Is an interactive installation made with various mirrors that generate new ways of observing urban space.

The piece allows the viewer to move through it, creating new perspectives for understanding our relationship with the environment we inhabit.

This installation was on display between October and November 2016 in Times Square, New York. Its development was made possible through a collaboration between Times Square Arts and the Cuban Artists Fund.

During its time in the space, it is estimated that nearly 2 million people passed through and interacted with it.

This installation work is composed of three geometric bodies placed in the urban space, modifying its perception.

The mirror effect of the surface multiplies the views of the space.

The irregular forms of each abstract sculpture reflect on the aesthetic and reflective possibilities of contemporary practice.

This work explores the relationship between people and the landscape and natural elements.

With a minimalist aesthetic and an execution that connects with the Land Art movement, Rachel Valdés created a geometric volume in the shape of an ascending peak using steel sheets.

The polished, glossy finish of the material’s surface creates a mirror effect, altering the perception of natural space.