My parents also gave everything for the revolution. All Cuban families carry many frustrations, because we have left so much behind along the way—in pain and in separation.
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Solveig Font was born on October 13, 1976, in Marianao, Havana. Her early childhood was spent in La Demajagua, on the Isle of Youth, where she grew up in what she remembers as a happy and creative environment. She began studying piano at the age of seven. At seventeen, she returned with her family to Havana, a transition she experienced as particularly difficult. From 1999 to 2013, she worked at the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), a decisive period in her development as a curator and in her understanding of the Cuban art system. After leaving the institution, she launched the independent project A veces Art Space from her own home and participated in the early stages of the Fábrica de Arte Cubano. The enactment of Decree 349 marked a turning point in her life, leading her toward more direct activism. She took part in the November 27, 2020 protests (27N), was repressed during the January 27, 2021 demonstration, and was detained for 27 hours after the July 11, 2021 protests (11J). These experiences led her to decide to leave the country. State Security facilitated her departure on the condition that her son also emigrated. In exile, she has continued her work as a curator, focusing on issues of migration and collaborating with the collective From Another P.O.V.. She views Cuba’s future with concern, though she maintains hope in the country’s younger generations and their capacity for mobilization. This interview was recorded within the framework of the project Memory of Our Cuban Neighbors, in Madrid, 2025.
