Havana/Havana Gallery opens this Friday Good night. I love you very much. Stay with me for a little bita joint exhibition by Esterio Segura and Esterio Segura Jr. that brings the works of father and son face to face. The proposal is based on a shared experience of life, creation, teaching and learning, but also seeks to confront two generationally different ways of constructing an image and relating to art.
The exhibition continues a collaboration that both artists have previously developed outside of Cuba. According to the information published on the occasion of the Havana inauguration, this proposal constitutes an evolution of four exhibitions carried out together, with presentations in spaces such as ESGallery, in Miami; Artes de Cuba, in New Mexico, and Article 20, in New York. One of them, Segura y Segura, was open at Artes de Cuba between September and November 2025.
The contrast between both languages constitutes one of the axes of the exhibition. In Esterio Segura, born in Santiago de Cuba in 1970, a career marked by the transformation and reinterpretation of national and human symbols appears, through drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and installation. His work has addressed issues such as insularity, travel, and the tensions of Cuban society, often through humor, irony, and the appropriation of recognizable iconography.
In Esterio Segura Jr., on the contrary, there is a desire for narrative synthesis: reducing the image to its essential elements and making the color, composition, gestures, shadows and landscapes sustain the story. The artist has described this search as an attempt to reach a point where the minimum is essential. Hence also a sensitivity that the exhibition notes relate to cinematography.
The bilingual title —Good night. I love you very much. Stay with me for a little bit— reinforces that idea of proximity, conversation and permanence that runs through the project. More than presenting two independent productions brought together in one room, the exhibition proposes to observe what happens when two creative universes linked by a family relationship meet, recognize each other and also reveal their differences.
The choice of Galería Habana also has a particular resonance for Esterio Segura: the artist is part of the list of creators represented by the institution and has shown his work there on previous occasions. Founded in 1962, the gallery has hosted exhibitions by figures such as Wifredo Lam, René Portocarrero, Mariano Rodríguez and Amelia Peláez throughout its history, as well as successive generations of Cuban contemporary art.
