Artist from Quemadito Viejo – Escambray

From this rural community of Fumento, business has arrived in Havana that was born by Teresa de Jesus Borges, one of the province’s purest gullible creators.

There are many beings, images, sensations … that awaken in the early morning Teresa de Jesus Borges, artist from Quemadito Viejo, a community located on one side of the road leading to the municipality of Fumento. There, in his country house and yard of fertile land for shaping figures, he managed to make art with those tremors that always come before dawn.

completely, 13 unpublished works, Daughters of Those Intimate Moments, currently hang in the Multipurpose Room affiliate light gallery And crafts from Havana.

“They incorporate tThree series: Guajirito SabaneroAnd in the corner of the soul And in his own nameIt is the latter that gives the title of the exhibition on which I worked with the techniques of aAcrylic and tempera on cardboard, ”its author stated.

The ingenuity, intuition and spontaneity with which Teresa de Jesús takes steps in the art scene are the hallmarks for which she is considered a naive creator, one of the purest primitives found in the province.

“I dream a lot and hear voices that no one believes me often. So, I have to take them to the plate. It’s pure surrealism,” he adds, taking his first steps into the world of creativity with pieces made from roots, dried banana leaves, and charcoal.

Already with a good track, we find it Guajirito Sabanero Rural life, from a very typical vision of this Trinidadian settled years ago in the aforementioned community of Fomento. while in the corner of the soul And with your own light The essence of a woman who has a lot to say is discovered.

“Evelio Pérez Morijon worked with me at the Olga Alonso House of Culture, in Fomento. Then he moved to Havana and did not leave me alone. Thanks to this man, I had my first exhibition in the country’s capital, namely in Villa Panamericana, and now this one.

“Likewise, the medium would have known my creations in the spaces of the city of Sancti Spiritus, for they were already in Havana and it was an inconceivable thing that I would not be recognized in my own land.”

Last October, Teresa de Jesus Borges gave up I have + from the tigerat the headquarters of the Spirituan branch of the José Martí Cultural Association, where figures from golden age They are brought back to life thanks to the naive artistic current.

“When creating it, you always think about how you can share it with the rest of the people. After this exhibition, I will be attentive to another opportunity, always in constant contact with the House of Culture of Fomento and the Regional Council of Houses of Culture of Sancti Spiritus ”.

In addition to painting, Teresa de Jesús is engaged in handicrafts with fibers, specifically with the scrubber, and writes children’s poetry.

“At the moment I am working with some scripts that I also want to clarify.”