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Cuban Digital Art & Exhibitions: Hunger, Resistance, and Resilience

Dr. Karina Lissette Cespedes, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Humanities and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, curates the content and authors the commentary within the guide.

Yahora91 "Las masas" (the masses/the dough)

The piece by the artist Yahora91 (H. Rodriguez Morales), entitled “La Masa” (the baking dough), depicts the mass manufacturing of dough via a mechanized system in which to make the dough, alien body parts are included as an ingredient.

The mass is compressed via a mechanized system, in which to make the dough, alien body parts are included as an ingredient.  The piece alludes to social compression, the transformation of bodies into body parts, the disintegration of discernible individuality into one large "mass" of bodies that ultimately are converted into "materia prima."  The final product of formless mass is metaphorically a method of dispelling hunger.

Click the link to see his digital art piece entitled Las Masas.