When a Cuban looks at the sea, it evokes the isolation and pain of thousands of families, the anxiety, and the psychological frustration of living in a divided country. The sea becomes a wall or a barbed-wire fence delimiting one’s destiny.

- Yoan Capote

Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong is delighted to announce Yoan Capote: Mixed Feelings, an evocative exhibition of new works by acclaimed Cuban artist Yoan Capote on view from 22 March to 21 June 2025. In this presentation, Capote weaves together the sublime beauty of the Cuban landscape with the weight of its turbulent socio-political history. As its title suggests, Mixed Feelings explores duality – love and disillusionment, belonging and estrangement, hope and despair – and captures the paradoxes of the artist’s homeland in works that speak to global themes of migration and political turbulence. Capote’s meditations on Cuba’s fraught realities
extend far beyond its physical and ideological borders, resonating powerfully with the shifting political landscape of Hong Kong – a city and an island where the erosion of autonomy has fostered an increasing sense of insularity. Through his exploration of the ambivalent and often contradictory emotions that arise from living at the threshold of self-governance, Capote reveals the universal tensions of contested identity and political uncertainty.

Gallery address: 201 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang