The document is available at the Antonio Rodríguez Morey Information Center, as published by the museum on social networks, and consists of 128 pages with texts by specialists Lázara Menéndez, Corina Matamoros and Sandra García.

The central point is Ayón’s radical exploration of Sikán, a figure in the iconography of the Abakuá myth in Cuba, which originated from African ancestors.

“Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations” is the first UK retrospective of the exceptional Cuban printmaker, which will run until February 9 and displays an impressive set of 60 artworks from the Belkis Ayón Estate.

The exhibition reveals the alternative outcomes that the late artist, considered among the most prominent figures of 20th-century Cuban art, conjures for the myth by fusing the narrative with her own ideas and life experiences as a black Cuban woman, according to the post on the Facebook profile of the Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts.

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