By Alexander Nixon, MA
NEW YORK, NY.- A naked woman covered in white make-up crouches on the floor after having hacked off her own head with a samurai sword. This powerful image by Cuban painter Rocío García, whose three-part interview for the Cuban Art Space Interview Series is a tour de force of philosophy, existentialism, and nihilism that makes Nietzsche and Freud seem quaint. “From our attitudes about sexuality spring forth many of our social, economic, even political problems,” she explains in the interview. “All of our human relationships are bound by love and violence,” she states later on. As a viewer, I interpret the auto-decapitation painting from her Geisha series as her way of illustrating how individuals many societies may resort to self-inflicted violence and sexual self-repression in order