The Victor Hugo House, cultural center of the Office of the Historian of the City, exhibits the exposition Miradas de la Habana from the French photographer Franck Delorieux.

The exhibit´s curator, toured in 2012 around different neighborhoods of the Greater of the Antiques, and since then, he got seduced by the former San Cristobal Village, founded to the shadow of a Ceiba tree on November 16, 1519.

The snapshots, with the curator work of Marc Sagaert, general director of Aliaza Francesa de Cuba (French Alliance of Cuba) and the support of the Asociación Cuba Cooperación Francia, have been worked in dark tonalities bringing life to fragments of light. While dark shades stand out, they orchestrate landscapes, shape figures and make poetry blossoms from places.

As a tribute to the poet, playwright and romantic French writer and one of the distinctive artist of French literature, the Victor Hugo House was born in 2003 in a former building at O´Reilly Street #311, in the colonial surroundings of Havana.

It is an institution aimed to the studies of the French culture, language and customs, where French language lesson are taught. There are spaces destined to learn about life and work of the prestigious French author, a library, a Hall destined for reading activities and movie projection, contemporary art exhibits room related to the heritage of cities and regions of the European country.

Under the sponsoring of the Asociación Cuba Cooperación Francia and the Office of the Historian of the City, the cultural facility summits every year to the Victor Hugo Literary Award which encourages and stimulates the research and the artistic-literary creation linked to the bonds and influences between the Cuban and the French culture.

Source: Radio Enciclopedia