This project explores the impact of the Chupacabras myth in Mexico as a media-constructed smokescreen. Recreating news images, I seek to reveal how fear and fiction were used by the media as tools of distraction and control.
During the height of the Cold War, Mexico City became the perfect battlefield for the United States and the Soviet Union to spy on each other. This is a project by Valeria Arendar and Eleana Konstantellos.
This essay is my way of understanding my unconscious inheritance following the maternal lineage of my family and breaking with the repetitive pattern of submission and macho love. It is my way of not forgetting myself as an individual and as a woman.