Pedro Lemebel was a writer, visual artist and chronicler. He was born on November 21, 1952. Santiago de Chile and died on January 23, 2015, at 62 years of age.
After graduating in visual arts from the University of Chile, he was a teacher at two peripheral schools, but he was fired from both, apparently because of his homosexual appearance. After that, he dedicated to literature.
His work stands out for his radical questioning of the neoliberal society, where it reproduces a repressive ideology; and following its practice of structuring dualisms of excluding normal.
The most original of his work is in the vehemence of his exercise of "difference", or "the marginalized". For this, In his chronicles, he makes a critical of the culture of dictatorship and the hatred against homosexuality.
He also dedicated to the artistic performance, to form with the poet Francisco Casas, "Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis", which it was characterized by surprisingly barging in book launches and art exhibitions, becoming a counterculture myth.
In 1995 he published his first collection of stories, "La esquina es mi corazón" and created a program on Radio Tierra, called "Cancionero". in the following years he published "Loco afán" y "Perlas y cicatrices".
I admire him because he was a transgressive artist and his work was able to capture a critique of the model that governs us today as a society. His writing registration It was a mixture of metaphorical as literal, as hyperbolic as social, and whose fusion is an emotional poetic acute.
