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I'm so proud of you.
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In Nigeria, we've been told growing up…
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Oh you can't be an artist.
You won't see money.
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But I've sold NFTs to over 20 collectors.
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Now my dad is happy, he's always saying,
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"My daughter is a photographer,
she's an international photographer."
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As a mother, as an artist…
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I'm afraid to be here right now in Cuba.
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I've seen my artist friends,
because of what their work is saying,
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being repressed, being imprisoned.
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The way things are right now,
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I don't want my daughter
to grow up in Cuba.
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If I could transport her,
take her out right now, I would.
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In 2018, the state imposed Decree 349.
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These are new images of the
police crackdown
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against artists who protested in Havana
against the Decree 349
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that puts even more limits
on the work of artists.
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Many have been arrested…
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Decree 349 limits the exercise of art
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that could in any way oppose
the Cuban government.
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But I believe that art must have autonomy.
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It has to respond to its historical
or social moment.
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Obviously, it must have that freedom.
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With this triptych
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I am using the metaphor of the body,
of the sexual,
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as a way to explore socio-political
issues and power relations.
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If you notice, these pieces have been
covered with packaging material.
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This was the result of censorship
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in a state-run gallery in Cuba.
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They considered this phrase
too provocative
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and I was not allowed to
present it like this.
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So they made me censor the areas
that contained the political text.
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I'll open it.
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This was the other phrase that
provoked the gallery.
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It says, "The lack of balls to talk about
politics without metaphors."
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I asked myself if I was willing to
present my work under censorship.
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And I finally decided this was
the best solution.
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I read in BBC the news of Beeple's sale.
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I immediately Googled, "What is an
NFT?" "How do I make an NFT?"
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The triptych was the first NFT
that I minted on the blockchain.
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For the first time, NFTs gave
me the feeling
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not only of creative freedom
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but also economic freedom.
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When I realized what I was earning just
from the sale of one or two NFTs,
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that's when I saw that this could
free me from the Cuban state.
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You said that you used to have
a gambling problem?
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Are you concerned about the number
of scams in the NFT space?
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{\an8}- Let's go to OpenSea now.
- Ok.
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Is that Princess Violet? What's she doing?
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What changes are you going to make now?
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I don't know. I'm thinking.
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NFTs give you the freedom to
express yourself artistically
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whatever your style might be.
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Let's see your drawings.
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This is Claudia.
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This one's called "The Sunrise".
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For many Cuban artists,
it has been a space of liberation.
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But the blockchain is not the absolute
path to freedom that it's made out to be.
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Censorship also exists in NFTs.
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For being Cuban or Iranian or Russian,
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you can be censored by
platforms for political reasons.
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This piece is called "The Stalker".
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It's based on a moment of a lot of
tension here in Cuba,
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a massive increase in harassment
of the people by state security
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like a patrol car downstairs
monitoring you,
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or when you're on the street and a
person appears and calls your name
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and asks what you're doing.
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This character here studying in his room,
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represents the person being harassed,
it could be the artist, the intellectual.
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And this character logically represents
the security of the state,
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the feeling in recent years here in Cuba,
that they know everything you are doing.
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It is a vicious circle
that generates chaos.
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I had it hosted on OpenSea,
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the biggest and most important
NFT marketplace right now.
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Until they blocked me a month
and a half ago
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where I lost all the works that I
had hosted there.
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And currently when I try to enter,
I get a 404 error.
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OpenSea is the biggest NFT
platform right now.
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But the problem is that it's an
American platform,
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based in the United States,
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and Cuba and the United States
have many political conflicts
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that produce this type of contradiction.
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The platforms talk about
decentralization - that's just marketing.
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Decentralization is a very
spectacular concept,
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but the truth is that we are human beings
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who are manipulating all of this,
and human beings are political.
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We wanted to give back to the community.
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So we've been able to set up
an art initiative
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which is going to be focused on giving
back art supplies to school students.
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So which one of you wants to be
an artist in the future…?
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The proceeds from NFT art sales
made it really possible.
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The collapse of the NFT market
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was something we expected in any moment,
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like any bubble it blinded everyone.
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When it went from being about
individual art
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into a boom of collectibles,
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I believe we all knew that in some moment
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those heights were going to come down.
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Seeing that the decline in the
cryptocurrency market was getting worse,
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I decided to withdraw my earnings
and put it towards my life and my plans.
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The decision to leave Cuba
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is a desire that I've carried with me
for a long time.
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It's about living continually
under censorship,
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without freedom of expression.
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So in the next few days,
I'm leaving Cuba for Spain.
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The money I earned from NFTs was
an important part
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of proving that I had the necessary funds
required for the immigration process.
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I'm very nervous,
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I have never left the island.
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But my immigrating is about
giving her a better future,
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a better place to live
a life with dignity.
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So thinking about whether NFTs
liberated me…
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With everything, I see things in
shades of gray, not black and white.
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Yes, they liberated me. Yes and no.
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The whole NFT crash happening
has given me the time to reflect.
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Having able to focus more on the art
apart from just making sales.
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The NFT space really brought a lot of
financial freedom for us
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and allowed us to help a lot of
young people in Nigeria.
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I don't think I'll be able to do some
of these things
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if I haven't, you know, discovered
the NFT space.
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Now we're about to do the Everyday.
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The pieces of paper with red dots on them.
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Those won an NFT.
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We minted a performance.
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It's the first ever art protest action
minted on blockchain.
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And we raised money for
reproductive rights.
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NFTs can be more than just flipping JPEGs.
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This is a revolution in the way
people think about value,
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and NFT art has become a symbol of it.
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The current form of NFTs will
completely change in five years.
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