An exhibition by Cuban artist-in-residence Dashel Hernandez will be on display in the University of Delaware’s Taylor Hall, Feb. 6-16.

An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 6, with a 6 p.m. screening of the 24-minute experimental movie “One Day in the Life of Javier Antonio.”

The reception and the exhibition, titled “The Little Grey Wolf Will Come,” are free and open to the public.

The title comes from a Russian lullaby: “Baby baby rock-a-bye / On the edge you mustn’t lie / Or the little grey wolf will come / And will nip you on the tum / Tug you off into the wood / Underneath the willow-root.”

Hernandez, a visual artist, art educator and writer, grew up in Cuba during the late 1970s and early ’80s and, without knowing it, was caught up in the Cuban-Soviet ideological struggle of the Cold War. As a boy at school he played out his fantasies of the space race. At night, he dreamed of the snow his mother would bring back, in a tiny box, on her return from Moscow.

The exhibition is based on mixed concepts of material culture and cultural memory.

Hernandez has said that he is “interested in creating a visual, emotional response to both my changing personal memories and a part of my country’s history.”

The exhibition is curated by Maria de Lourdes Marino, an art historian, curator and critic. She worked as a Cuban art, cinema and art critic teacher at the University of Arts and has curated several group art exhibitions in galleries, private spaces and abandoned places in Cuba.