Open Letter: Release Otero Alcántara [NYR]

The Cuban government is detaining the artist solely for expressing his ideas through his art and for his nonviolent defense of human rights.

To President Miguel Díaz-Canel:

We the undersigned condemn the detention of the Black artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a leader of the San Isidro Movement, a group of Cuban artists, journalists, and academics that campaigns for freedom of expression.

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The New York Review

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It is the opposite to staring into the Sun–where an infinite amount of light obliterates; but similar in that the obliteration (flares, bleeds, and streaks through the image) reshapes how we see and how we relate to the finite, the material, and even incompleteness(?).