Mexico, 1996.
For several weeks, a mythical, fictional creature became the main topic on television and in major newspapers: the Chupacabras. It was described as a legendary cryptid that attacks animals, and sometimes humans too, in rural areas. Its name comes from its blood-sucking habit.
Through staging, based on the collection of media footage and interviews, I aim to create a fictional space where we can explore and reveal the mechanisms of construction of this social myth used by the media to manipulate and practice a politics of fear during a period of deep social, political and economic crisis in Mexico.
Bio: Eleana Konstantellos André (b. 1995, France) is a French, Greek and Mexican photographer.
Through her work, she challenges photography as a subject of memory, oblivion, and manipulation. Through staged photography and archival work, she analyzes narratives of the past to uncover the historical, political, and cultural processes behind them and thus understand her present.
Her work has been exhibited in New York, Milan, Mexico City, Nizhny Tagil, Paris and has been published in various print and digital media.
