“La mentirosa” (2009–2011) was a pioneering digital initiative I conceived from Cuba, where email became the only available mass‐communication medium. For three years I sent a creative newsletter each month to over a thousand recipients, aiming to question and counter the artistic, political, and social canons of the time. The project existed solely through those email dispatches and never had a web archive, and I abandoned it in 2011 under the political pressure I faced for breaking the island’s information monopoly. .
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Between 2009 and 2011 I created and sent La Mentirosa on a monthly basis—a digital newsletter distributed by email to over a thousand recipients in Cuba—with the aim of challenging and questioning the artistic, political, and social norms of that era. Although the work never took physical form—it existed only in those emails—I still preserve the original PDFs of each issue. Recently, I have assembled the headers from several of those editions into a visual mosaic that captures the project’s ephemeral and provocative nature.
PDF with the original LA MENTIROSA can be requested.
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By clicking the link below you can read an essay on the subject
by Dannys Montes de Oca.
