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Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenasphoto : Jenny Sanchez

Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas aka Martica Minipunto (Cuba, 1991) is a writer and performer who studied at the Universidad de las Artes, ISA. Her practice is developed in permanent research on transdisciplinary processes, with an emphasis on poetry, archives, and micropolitic devices.

 She has published « Días de hormigas » [Ants days] (Ed. Unión, 2018), « Los vegueros »  [The tobacco planters] (Sureditores, 2019) and « La puta y el hurón »  [The Whore and the Ferret]  (Editions Fra, 2020; Caballo de Troya, 2023). She has participated in artist residencies and festivals as La Serre Art-Vivans (Montreal, 2018), Experimenta Sur (Colombia, 2019), Panorama Sur (Argentina, 2019), Young Curators Academy (Berlin, 2019), Festival Sâlmon (Barcelona, 2020), Watch and Talk (Zürcher Theater Spektakel, 2020), Festival Poesía en Voz Alta (México, 2021), Festival Santiago a Mil (Chile, 2021), La Caldera (Barcelona, 2022), and Per°Form Open Academy (Singapore, 2023), among others.  

Her performance « No soy unicornio » [I’m no unicorn] received the award ZKB Acknowledgement Prize-2022 in Zürcher Theater Spektakel.  She is the founder of the independent publisher Ediciones sinsentido and coordinated a scenic laboratory called Laboratorio Escénico de Experimentación Social, LEES, from 2016-2020.

Projects of Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

  • Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

    Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas
    Transitory poem for the future

    I want to teleport to Sainte-Cunégonde Park with an idea of the future from Cuba. I want my language to appear there: in Spanish, French, English, or simply, in “poetry”.

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