Pedro Lemebel
(21 November 1952 – 23 January 2015)
Was a writer, chronicler and Chilean plastic artist. He was know for his critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective. He was born in a slum, along the Zanjón de la Aguada, but in the mid-1960s he moved with his family to a set of social housing in Departmental Avenue. In the 1970s, Lemebel entered the University of Chile, where he graduated as a teacher of Plastic Arts. He had poor reception in schools for their gay appearance, so he decided to pursue literary workshops and writing chronicle. He died of cancer of the larynx on 23 January 2015 in Chile.
Pedro Lemebel had an important literary
work in Chile, but what i like about him is his way of taking the
criticism to the body.
With Fernando Casa founded Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis. This
performative duo was characterized by sabotage book launches and art
exhibitions, appearing in a surprising and provocative manner, settling in the
country as a counterculture phenomenon. One of ther performance was dancing
barefoot on a map of latioamérica with ground glass.
Pedro Lemebel also performed alone, One of his performance was write the alphabet with neopren on a catwalk of a slum in santiago, burning each.
