Image: Smith College Museum of Art, New York
‘The Empty Plaza / La Plaza Vacia’ is a 2012 single-channel video by Coco Fusco.
The work combines contemporary footage with archival recordings, still photography, and poetic narration by Cuban journalist Yoani Sánchez.
Fusco traces the plaza’s transformation from a symbol of revolutionary optimism to a site associated with surveillance, repression, and unfulfilled promises.