Under the title of Soulgrafts, Onofre Frías conceives a setting integrated by the record of his recent aesthetical concerns. The Sofía Imber Museum of Contemporary Art provides the adequate space to arrange assemblages and paintings of various formats that constitute the work's integral design.

The first attempt to approach this proposition leads us to a generic premise: contemporary reality can only be understood through three fundamental prefixes: "RE", "POLI", and "META". In fact, the complexity of current events is determined, in a meaningful proportion, by reiteration, restating, reinvention, revitalization, reorganization , redefining...finally, by the continuous hegemony of the syllable "RE", which is quitting to be an accidental prefix to become a paradigm of a strong and all-embracing presence. At the same time it is necessary to accept the omnipresent and determining presence of the prefix "POLI". There is no phenomenon or circumstance that can be explained from the reductive perspective of the one-determined.

Everything comes from the concurrence of a series of factors that mingle and intermingle among themselves in an entwined thicket of factors. Everything is polidetermined and can be understood aside from the plurality of causes that are conjugated under complexity's shelter. But the comprehensive guidelines do not get exhausted with the outlined paradigms. There is still other dimension without which it is impossible to guarantee an insight approach to the current surroundings. We are talking about the prefix "META" that, of course, has become also a paradigm. No event exhausted itself in the manifestations, formal and observable, of its own presence. The circumstances and phenomena are not restricted either to the appearances or to the record of their appearances. There is a beyond, a behind, a "in the bottom" that surpasses the exclusively retinal, measurable and tangible data.

Víctor Guédez