SOBREDOSIS CUBA
In 1997 Marianne Gerber visited Cuba for the first time. The island wouldn’t let her go. In Havana she quickly won the confidence of the young people – ‘kids of this time’ – and stayed in the midst of prostitutes, transvestites and homosexuals. Gerber was allowed to go anywhere, visited everything and photographed all of it, mostly on the street, sometimes in cafes, but also in friends’ homes. SOBREDOSIS CUBA is an overdose of energy and intensity, visualising a stormy lifestyle arising from four stimuli: sex, rum, music and cheap cocaine. With her straightforward photographs she gives us an extraordinarily concise image of a high-spirited young generation in the midst of the poverty of socialism-as-it-exists, commercial sex and a lust for life.
