René Francisco // Cuba
Agua Benita
Benita Rivera is an old lady who lives in an alley of the 60 Street between 19 and 21, Municipality of Playa. The roof of her small house has been damaged for many years and had serious troubles with filtrations so the rainy seasons have terrible consequences for all Benita’s belongings: household furnishings, appliances, many of them lost because of this situation.
Benita is retired; this and her illness (rheumatism) make her life to elapse in the interior of her home. Rene Francisco and a team of ingenieurs and workers reconstructed the house and water system that solves Benita’s troubles.
A video documents the working process. Rene introduced a little of that fantasy mentioned before. As a deliberate fairy tale the angel of the painting appear to Benita in a day of torrential rain, opening the works and the repairs of the roof, conducting the water that arrives every now and then.
Agua Benita : René Francisco // Cuba
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