His Auriga series, which borrows its name from Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus, refers to a mythical charioteer driving two winged horses: one representing all that is beautiful and good, while the other represents neither. Composed of plasterboard, wood, and paper fragments retrieved from an abandoned mansion in Havana, Rodríguez’s Auriga works recreate what was once one of the most elegant buildings in Havana: a structure which, today, has all but fallen into ruin. While specialists have identified the cause of the building’s destruction as being due to its proximity to the sea, Rodríguez sees in this a poetic testament to history’s frailty in the teeth of geological time and ineluctable natural forces.