Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was one of the most important Cuban writers of the 20th century and one of the representative figures of the Latin American neo-baroque. Even so, his extensive literary legacy is little known among the citizens of some countries.

In 1973 he wrote «Big Bang», a work composed of seventeen literary pieces. In them two types of texts coexist: the scientific and the poetic. In the latter, Sarduy uses astronomical terms as metaphors to induce poetic eroticism. Pieces X and XI contain stelar graphics instead of text.

The purpose of the «Big Crunch» project is, on the one hand, to interpret the pieces of «Big Bang» through photography and, on the other, to contribute to the dissemination of Severo Sarduy's poetry. Each of the seventeen images that make it up is inspired by a piece from «Big Bang». The photographs capture small drops of oil poured into water, illuminated with polychromatic light and photographed with a macro lens. The choice of these fluids is intentional, with the purpose of generating circular or elliptical figures. Both forms suggest celestial bodies and are present in the collection of poems by Severo Sarduy, who uses geometry to create poetic spaces. Each photograph is accompanied by the title and the fragment of the «Big Bang» piece that inspired it, both in quotes.

The first piece is the origin: «The universe swells / We witness the result of a gigantic explosion»; the subsequent pieces serve as a transition towards the final literary piece, which describes an ending: «Time has ended / go back to sleep». In a personal interpretation, the sequence simulates a cosmic cycle that begins with a Big Bang and ends with a Big Crunch. The latter concept lends its name to the project. Big Crunch is a cosmological theory proposing a universe in which the expansion caused by the Big Bang gradually slows down, eventually reversing into a progressive convergence of all elements. All matter would eventually be compressed into a space-time singularity, marking the end of the universe. This phenomenon could give rise to a new Big Bang, with the entire process repeating cyclically to form different universes.

The creation of this work in 2023 established a link with the Sarduyian poetry of 1973 within a fifty-year temporal span, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original publication of «Big Bang».