2021, Newspapers, each 32 x 28 cm and performance action in Pueblo, Mexico
The Mexican free newspaper publimetro reports with various headlines about the censorship on the art of Manuela Picallo Gil in public space in Austria. Cover illustrations point to the theft of art by unknown vandals and about the concern of an art space, to bite the hand that feeds it. The fusion of a the publimetro publisher and an Austrian tabloid causes a sensation. Publimetro reports on protests and criticism of the Austrian boulevard publisher’s reporting and future restrictions on press freedom. The mixture of fictitious and real headlines attempt to attract attention in the style of the tabloid media and report on certain past and fictitious events.