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Sleeping With...
By: Carlos Otero
Sleeping with... is the photo exhibition of artists Enrique Rottenberg and Carlos Otero showcased during Photography month in November at the Cuban Photo Library. This exhibition caused intense emotions and enormous interest in both the public and critics. In direct contrast to the incessant public spectacle with which the lives of Cubans tend to be perceived, immersed in music and unmotivated bustle and clamour, this exhibit tells a different story. We are introduced to people's most secret space, the one of dreams, through photos of the most private place of a home, the bedroom.
These are photos to the intention of anonymous dreamers, the "unknown soldiers," as Enrique Rottenberg called them in his opening speech thanking the thousand people throughout the island who opened their doors to the widest of their hospitality.
The absence of inhabitants in the photographs fills the environments with subjective content, giving soul to objects that contain bits of the story of each character as well as their diffused national and personal identity. These portraits of absence call on our own ability to dream, summoning the spectator's consciousness and unconsciousness: from within the bedroom to the inside of us.
Sleeping with... is the photo exhibition of artists Enrique Rottenberg and Carlos Otero showcased during Photography month in November at the Cuban Photo Library. This exhibition caused intense emotions and enormous interest in both the public and critics. In direct contrast to the incessant public spectacle with which the lives of Cubans tend to be perceived, immersed in music and unmotivated bustle and clamour, this exhibit tells a different story. We are introduced to people's most secret space, the one of dreams, through photos of the most private 
place of a home, the bedroom.
The absence of inhabitants in the photographs fills the environments with subjective content, giving soul to objects that contain bits of the story of each character as well as their diffused national and personal identity. These portraits of absence call on our own ability to dream, summoning the spectator's consciousness and unconsciousness: from within the bedroom to the inside of us.
