Still life series, turning violence into art.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (Cuban,1987) is a performance artist and dissident, known for his public performances that openly criticize the Cuban government and its policies. He is a co-founder of the San Isidro Movement. Otero Alcántara’s performances defy easy categorization, ranging from the intentionally absurd to the poignantly political. A self-taught artist, his did not develop his practice within the national art education system in Cuba. Rather, he began his professional life as an endurance racing athlete, but later found that he “couldn’t speak up” in the ways that he wanted to. Since 2018. The artist has been arrested dozens of times for his performances in violation of Decree 349, a Cuban law requiring artists to obtain advance permission for public and private exhibitions and performances.

Otero Alcántara was arrested on the street on 11 July 2021, when he was on his way to take part in one of the protests that were happening across the country. Since then, he has been detained in a maximum security prison in Guanajay, Cuba.

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