Harry Pinedo: Art and Intercultural Education, Ecology and Social Justice
Join artist, educator, and community activist Harry Pinedo in conversation with researcher Jorge Catala. Pinedo will share insights from his experience of migration and his multifaceted practice in the Shipibo community of Cantagallo in Lima. Through a personal lens, Pinedo will explore the intersection of art, teaching, ecological engagement and social justice, reflecting on how these practices come together to support and express Indigenous knowledges and claims for a better future.
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Harry Pinedo/ Inin Metsa is an artist and intercultural teacher. He belongs to the Shibipo people in Peru’s central Amazon and lives in the Shipibo community of Cantagallo in Lima. His work focuses on issues of the interrelation of worlds and environmental sustainability, internal migration and the various battles to establish an indigenous community in Lima. His first solo exhibition “The Splendor of Yanapuma” (2017) denounced pollution in the Amazon, and during the Covid-19 pandemic, his art practice focused on Shipibo responses to Covid-19. He has exhibited internationally and has recently participated at Pinta Miami art fair in the Special Project “To Paint the Forest Beings”.
Jorge Català, Reader in Spanish and Cultural History at Newcastle University (UK), researches on cultural history and memory in periods of societal crisis in Spain and Latin America. He specialises in graphic narrative, intermediality and periodical publications in the 20th and 21stcenturies. His monograph Vanguardia y humorismo en crisis (Tamesis, 2015) examined graphic art during the Spanish Civil War and the 1959 Cuban Revolution. He is also the co-editor of Comics and Memory in Latin America(Pittsburgh, 2017) and Multimodalidad e intermedialidad: Mestizajes en la narración gráfica contemporánea ibérica y latinoamericana(Universidad de León, 2022). He has written about contemporary Peruvian literature, football and affect, and his last piece focuses on racism and social justice in Peruvian comics (forthcoming).
This event is part of a wider public programme for Listening to the Voices of the Rivers. More information about the exhibition and other events can be found here.
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