ART & DESIGN

Photos: Tania Bruguera: Rebel With a Cause

For the cuban artist Tania Bruguera, free expression comes at a price.


Tania Bruguera
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Tania Bruguera performing El Peso de la Culpa (The Burden of Guilt), 1997–1999, Caracas, Venezuela. Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York/Courtesy of Studio Bruguera.

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Photographer: Jeremy Liebman

The artist, photographed in New York in October.

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Bruguera’s performance piece Displacement, 1998–1999, in Havana. Courtesy of Studio Bruguera.

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Tatlin’s Whisper #5, 2008, at Tate Modern, in London. Courtesy of Studio Bruguera.

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Untitled (Havana, 2000), 2000, which was recently acquired by MoMA. Casey Stoll/courtesy of Studio Bruguera.

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The performance piece Self-Sabotage, 2009. Courtesy of Studio Bruguera.

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Bruguera with her father, Miguel, in Lebanon, 1974.

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Bruguera (front), as a child in Cuba’s embassy in Paris, 1974. Courtesy of the artist.