As part of their Global Spotlight series, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington is still showing an exhibition by Cuban and Venezuelan artists— “Tactics for Remembering”—on view until January 25, 2026. Curated by Fabiola R. Delgado, the exhibition opened on September 27, 2025, featuring work by Amalia Caputo (whose still is shown above), Reynier Leyva Novo, and Lisu Vega in collaboration with Carlos Pedreañez. MoCA Arlington is located at 3550 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia.
Description: In the face of migration, political rupture, and cultural erasure, Tactics for Remembering invites viewers to reflect on the notion of home as a fluid and emotional space—shaped by memory, by the body, and by absence. It reflects on how we anchor ourselves to the world through the repetition of gestures, the intimacy of objects, and the spaces we try to recreate even when we are far from where we began.
Conceived as part of MoCA Arlington’s Global Spotlight series, the exhibition intentionally “bends the frame,” expanding the lens beyond national boundaries toward an affective geography: Cuba-Zuela. Used internally, and often with pejorative connotations, this linguistic hybrid is reclaimed as an act of solidarity, affirming the historical and cultural kinship between Cuba and Venezuela. The two nations, bound by the Caribbean Sea, are marked by parallel struggles, and linked by two sister diasporas.
The sea –a body that simultaneously connects and separates– becomes a symbolic axis in the exhibition: connecting people on “the other side of the water” and holding within its cyclical tides stories of power, migration, survival, and rebirth. Through this grouping, the exhibition resists narrow nation-based curatorial models and instead honors the porousness of Caribbean identity and the solidarities born out of necessity and generosity.
The artists featured in the exhibition build a visual language rooted in memory’s material and immaterial dimensions. They work with personal archives, domestic objects, architectural references, and embodied gestures to evoke their sense of self. Memory here is not static, but in vulnerable motion. It lives in a grandmother’s weaving technique, in an imagined building, in a vase that remembers the shape of its emptiness. Together, they map emotional territories that transcend borders and statehood, and embrace the radical tenderness found in holding memory alive. The artists insist on presence, ultimately sharing stories not of what we’ve lost, but what we carry.
Global Spotlight: Tactics for Remembering is organized by Fabiola R. Delgado, Guest Curator.
For more information, see https://mocaarlington.org/exhibits/2025/global-spotlight-tactics-for-remembering/
[Shown above: Amalia Caputo, La casa (de Hestia) (still), 2010, Single-channel video, 4 min. 16 sec. Courtesy the artist.]
As part of their Global Spotlight series, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington is still showing an exhibition by Cuban and Venezuelan artists— “Tactics for Remembering”—on view until January 25, 2026. Curated by Fabiola R. Delgado, the exhibition opened on September 27, 2025, featuring work by Amalia Caputo (whose still is shown above), Reynier Leyva
