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Participate:

• Pedro Marinello K. Photographer and author of one of the main visual memoirs of Pedro Lemebel and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis.
• Andrea Paz Serrano,  Curator, producer and cultural manager of the exhibition, linked to photography and contemporary visual culture projects.
• Óscar Contardo, Journalist and writer, author of Loca Fuerte. Portrait of Pedro Lemebel, recognized for his work on cultural memory and dissidence in Chile.
• Moderator: Roberto Careaga, Journalist and cultural critic specialized in literature, visual arts and contemporary thought.

The day will begin with the conversation panel and will end with a commented tour of the exhibition with part of the LMBL icon team.

This programming seeks to position the exhibition as a space for contemporary thought around cultural heritage, understanding the archive, performance and artistic practices as living forms of memory construction, strengthening the role of the GAM as a platform for dialogue and circulation of relevant cultural content.

Roberto Careaga C. is a journalist and in the last 20 years he has worked in different Chilean media, covering the cultural area and specifically literary events. He is part of the Arts and Letters team at El Mercurio. He is also the author of the book Poetry Ended Me. Vida de Rodrigo Lira (Ediciones UDP, 2017) and teaches classes at the School of Creative Literature at the Diego Portales University.

Óscar Contardo has written in Artes y Letras and Sábado of El Mercurio and in Gatopardo magazine. He is currently a columnist for the newspaper La Tercera. Some of his works have been included in the books Crónicas de carnival (2006); Chronicles from another planet (2009); The Damned (2011) and Extremas (2019). He is co-author of The eighties era: tevé, pop and under in the Chile of the eighties (2005) and anthologist of Back to 17, memories of a generation in dictatorship (2013). In 2008 he published Siútico: arribismo, abajismo y vida social en Chile, three years later Raro: a gay history of Chile (2011), the collection of columns Santiago capital (2012) and then Luis Oyarzún: A walk with the gods (2013). In 2012 his book Raro was awarded an honorable mention in the Essay category of the Municipal Literature Prize of the Municipality of Santiago. In 2018 he published the investigation Rebaño on abuse within the Chilean Catholic Church and in 2020 Before it was October, an essay that won the Best Literary Works award from the Ministry of Cultures and the Arts. In 2022 he published Loca Fuerte: Portrait of Pedro Lemebel (2022). He is also the author of Middle class: a tailored myth (2022).