Latineos - Latin America, Caribbean, arts, culture

This year the London Latin American Film Festival celebrates twenty-five years of Havana’s International TV and Film School, presenting the highlights from the past quarter century of one of the most influential of Cuban cultural institutions, alongside the best of this year's films, which reflect the changing priorities of Cuba's young filmmakers.

Today, Kiki Machado, was opening an exhibition of new work with fellow artists Julia and Nina Miranda, in this nice and spacious refurbished gallery space, in London. I went to see them while they were putting the final touches.

Her work is often seen as a careful balance between shapes, colours and texture. All this, through the use of recycled materials.

"My work incorporates the contrast of the tropical colours of my native Brazil and the green and gray tones of London my home city. From my years as a graphic designer student, I have developed a passion to reuse materials that would otherwise be discarded. This passion has taken me to acquire through many years a great amount of material which I now transforms into art."