Eduardo del Valle: Childhood Memories from the Other Side of the Water

Eduardo del Valle: Childhood Memories from the Other Side of the Water

Over the past nine years, Eduardo del Valle has worked on a visual autobiography of his experiences and observations central to his childhood. The photographic series Childhood Memories from the Other Side of the Water portrays his recollections of Cuba when he was a child, from 1951 to 1961. Del Valle left Cuba at the age of ten, never to return, and certain aspects of his memories have stayed with him. Wedged deep at the far end of his recollection, these aspects have challenged him forever in an unfading fashion. Entirely outside of the island, the project has culminated in eighty-three thought-provoking autobiographical photographs that recreate the artist’s memories.

For forty years, del Valle and his wife Mirta Gómez have worked in collaboration, focusing their practice and photographic series on subjects in states of transformation. Their work has received international attention throughout the years with accolades that include two Guggenheim Fellowships, solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and seven books of their photographs published by Nazraeli Press.

Eduardo del Valle: Childhood Memories from the Other Side of the Water is accompanied by a fully illustrated 126-page catalogue published by Nazraeli Press, with an introduction by Tony Mendoza, preface by Juan A. Martinez, poems by Ellen Bass and Richard Blanco, and afterword by Daniel Gottlieb.