Mabel Poblet (b. 1986, Cienfuegos, Cuba) is a Cuban multimedia artist who lives and works between Cuba and Madrid. Her practice explores identity, mobility and belonging, often through photographs that are cut, folded, woven and layered into reflective, sculptural surfaces. She graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and earned a degree from the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana in 2012, and in 2008 took part in Tania Bruguera's Cátedra Arte de Conducta workshops. The daughter of a theater director and an architect, she has said that art first appeared to her as a way to communicate what she found hard to express in words, and that from theater she inherited an interest in presence and the body, and from architecture an attention to space and memory. She has taken part in several editions of the Havana Biennial and represented Cuba in the Cuban Art Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.
