Five thousand paper boats adorned with military camouflage flood the exhibition space, climbing the walls and creating undulations that resemble the movement of fish in the ocean. High tide Lester Rodríguez's work, first exhibited in 2009 at the 10th Havana Biennial, is a composition that has been revisited multiple times and reflects on power and the ways in which space and territory are occupied. High Tide harks back to the colonial history of empires, specifically to the processes of discovery and colonization by naval empires. Ships settle in new territories, transforming and adapting them to their ways. They restructure our understanding of space, much like how foreign powers have been able to control developing countries through economic and cultural measures, or even through the mass development of naval vessels to perpetuate these colonialist processes.
