The Sextant, an immersive installation by Enrique Martínez Celaya, will open at The Wende Museum on November 8, 2025. This is the first solo exhibition in the museum’s history. The Sextant is conceived as a visual poem, comprising the reconstructed childhood home and the sculptures and paintings within, all held together by a single material: sugar. The installation also includes larger paintings and working machinery that continually restore the sugar. The original house on which the work is based was built by the artist’s father in the sugarcane town of Nueva Paz, Cuba, between 1957 and 1963, at the height of the Cold War. This installation concludes the artist’s trilogy on Cuba, which began with Los muertos llaman al alba at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana and The Word-Shimmering Sea: Diego Velázquez / Enrique Martínez Celaya at The Hispanic Society in New York, both presented in 2024. The Sextant continues Martínez Celaya’s inquiry into memory and belonging, into how the self is refracted through the notion of home and the bond between witness and participant, placing the personal and the political in close proximity. Supported by The Wende Museum’s commitment to preserving and interpreting Cold War history through its collections of art, artifacts, and archives, this final part of the trilogy draws resonance from the museum’s holdings and their alignment with the installation’s themes of memory, ideology, and reconstruction.