Cuban art's political reductionism challenged by Cristina Vives

Cristina Vives criticizes the tendency of foreign visitors to perceive Cuba's scarcity as folklore and Havana's ruin as a new aesthetic. She argues that Cuban artists of the 1990s inadvertently transformed society and history, but interpreting their work solely through political and economic contexts is reductive. The work of Kcho and its public reception exemplify this complexity.