"Pillow Fight" Performance / Installation 12' x 11.4' x 8'h 5 Women wearing , 5 White Bath Robes, 71 White Pillows, 93 Yards of White Sheets ,Red Feathers Nov 2005 The performance brings the tradition of a typical, yet violent childhood game back to the participants and the observers by asking them abandon what they know as proper social behavior for adults and engage in past childhood activity.

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Caridad Sola > "In Gods We Trust"
Installation: binded book containing 19 sacred texts from 14 different religions,22 kt gold leafed night table, and Darwin’s Origin of Species keeping the table level
3ft. x4ft. x20ft h/ March 2006

With hopes to diminish their divisions and hierarchies, the sacred texts are bound in chronological order emulating the history of mans’ relationship to religion. All religions basically hold the same message and each have similar core values, no matter what God (or Gods) you believe in. The night table drawer is small and closed, and it is obvious that this holy book can not be shoved away, hidden in a drawer, like in most hotels. Flowing to and from the book are more pages, as if the “words of Gods” are descending to man, or the “words of men” are ascending to God. Since this exhibition was only 2 blocks away from Ground Zero, the pages that fall from the ceiling and down into the book echo the events that took place as the Twin Towers collapsed. Unfortunately, we still live in a world filled with religious conflict and turmoil, even though each religion preaches peace. Just down the street from this installation space is the New York Stock Exchange, which inspired the title, In Gods We Trust, referring to the debate of whether the phrase should be removed from our currency.

Caridad Sola > "Pillow Fight"
Performance / Installation
12' x 11.4' x 8'h
5 Women wearing , 5 White Bath Robes, 71 White Pillows, 93 Yards of White Sheets ,Red Feathers
Nov 2005

The performance brings the tradition of a typical, yet violent childhood game back to the participants and the observers by asking them abandon what they know as proper social behavior for adults and engage in past childhood activity.

Caridad Sola > "Rolling in Filth"
Interactive Art Installation by Caridad Sola
$10,000 on a Queen Size Bed

Caridad Sola > "Playing on Eggshells"
Interactive Installation
Guests are invited to play within 12,000 plastic eggshells (in lieu of walking on eggshells.)
Father’s Lullaby inscripted on wood frame with child’s handwriting.
96”x 96” x 17’h

Caridad Sola > "Tiffany's Piñata"
3ft x 3 ft x 4 ft
Tiffany’s Piñata” gave participants the opportunity to be showered in diamonds as they strike a giant size ring box.

Caridad Sola > Promises for Achievement
Aug 2006
Installation for SVA Residency

Caridad Sola > Letting Go, 12/07/07, 2008
Interactive Installation: wood, fog, water, & shining star
14ft x 5ft x 4ft

"I had hopes of finding you, but with each day that passed, the hope for that miracle began to fade. I remember thinking to myself, as I searched thru the woods for you, and while walking out to the end of each pier –- saying…. “He’s gone.” But then I looked up at the sky, and I saw that one bright star - and I just knew, that it was you - shining down on me. "

In Memory of my “little brother”, Cesar Martin Montano 11/28/80 – 12/07/07.

Florida Coast News
Body Of Missing Boater Found In River 11:30 am EST December 12, 2007

The search for a 27-year old boater who fell in the St. Johns River last week ended Wednesday morning when a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer found his body floating in Palmo Cove. The FWC was told Cesar Montano fell off his sailboat while trying to refuel it with a gas can while under way. Montano and his wife, Jennifer, were on a 12-day trip that began in Miami. They were heading from Jacksonville to Welaka when he fell into the river early Friday morning.

Five agencies had officers using boats and aircraft all weekend in the search for the 27-year-old man. The body was spotted 10:30 a.m. Wednesday about two miles from the original search site. The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office dive team was called to retrieve the body. The FWC, the investigating agency, said an autopsy would be conducted to determine the cause of death.

Caridad Sola > "Lord, hear our prayer"
Mixed Media Installation
embedded objects in paraffin wax
prayer-wrapped rosaries,
gold communion plate
4 sets of hands:
man, woman, boy, girl
33” x 71” x 11”d / Feb 2006

Caridad Sola > "Severance"
Installation, paraffin wax male & female feet, embedded objects, 350 lbs of river rocks
8 ft. x 5 ft. x 2ft. high
May 2006

Caridad Sola > "These are Their Stories"
Installation
80 Bricks, Shear Ribbons
& 500 lbs of Sand
May 2005

When I moved to New York City, I began collecting bricks from all over the world and realized that I was fascinated by a tactile sense of history that I felt within the material, and I wanted to express its individuality. In the installation These Are Their Stories (2005) each brick has its own history, story and life. In a way they are like people, each one being a product of its culture. Some have a longer history: who made them, where they were used and for what purpose, when they were taken out of their location, and where they were collected. Other, newer bricks have shorter stories or even unknown stories. The length of each story can be seen by the length of the ribbons hanging down from each brick.

The installation emphasizes that they are being supported, rather than supporting a structure—as in their usual function—allowing the weight of each brick to be expressed, and at the same time contradicting their mass by looking virtually weightless. I feel that each one of them represents a suspended soul. I do not want the viewer to merely observe the installation, I want them to engage with it. I would like viewers to walk through the space, take their shoes off and let the sand pass through their toes. Pass their fingers over the fabric; read the text on the ribbons. Examine the bricks; touch their surfaces and even smell them.

Caridad Sola > "Perdida"
Installation (300s.f)
1,800 Pounds of Sugar Cane
50 Gallons of Water
4 Giant Inner Tubes wrapped in Burlap & Rope
Continuous Sound Loop of
Water Lapping
Oct 2005

In search of memories of my family’s past, “Perdida” was the result of an exploration of my Cuban heritage. When entering the installation one is forced to walk on top of the freshly-cut sugar cane that has been carefully sewed together with twine. It feels sturdy yet instable, and as you cross over into this space you become aware of your own footsteps, emphasizing the thought of a passage. And as you look into the center of the inner tubes you realize that they are containing water, contradicting their usual function as floatation devises.
Hundreds of images and documents are submerged in the water. Family photographs, diplomas, letters, and advertisements are just a few of the types of items you will find here. These precious memories have been discarded as if they no longer have any importance. You are invited to submerge your own hands into the water and fish out the memories the same way I had to. The sound of water is continuously heard adding an eerie feeling to the piece. Symbolically water is the distance between the place with these memories and where I stand. Yet these memories have sadly been washed away, and those lives and that place- no longer exist.

"Pillow Fight"
Performance / Installation
12' x 11.4' x 8'h
5 Women wearing , 5 White Bath Robes, 71 White Pillows, 93 Yards of White Sheets ,Red Feathers
Nov 2005

The performance brings the tradition of a typical, yet violent childhood game back to the participants and the observers by asking them abandon what they know as proper social behavior for adults and engage in past childhood activity.

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