Correction

Abstract

Fidel’s voice pervades the jewellery box, reminding us of a more general political intrusion in the supposedly intimate sphere, that “domestic” “interior” socialism. The video’s climax reveals the face that is attached to the sound; spectators glimpse a framed Fidel as if within a soapbox, adorned with the artifice that, the video suggests, sustained the Revolution (Figure 1). The hand packs them back into the box, but the jewels still do not fit, a fact that suggests the rhetoric is not an adequate exchange. The Revolution can keep its “recuperated” goods, as long as it covers up Fidel’s face. Is there wealth, perhaps, beyond the limits delineated by Pluto? Another possible interpretation of the video might echo this article’s epigraph “mucha tienda, poca alma”, that is, a hypocrisy beneath the strength in ideology. Finally, taking into account Pav on’s multiple artistic interventions critiquing the revolutionary government, the video might be implying that no amount of gold can change the present; that is to say, Fidel Castro’s imprint on Cuban reality.