Kena Lorenzini | |
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Born | María Eugenia Lorenzini Lorenzini 1959 (age 64–65)
Talca, Chile |
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Occupation(s) | Psychologist, photographer, writer |
Political party | Democratic Revolution |
Awards | Altazor Award (2010) |
Website |
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María Eugenia Lorenzini Lorenzini (born 1959), better known as Kena Lorenzini, is a Chilean psychologist, photographer, writer, curator, feminist, and activist.
Kena Lorenzini was born in Talca in 1959 to a Catholic and Pinochetist family. [1] She completed secondary school at the Liceo Blanco Encalada in Talca in 1976. [2] She earned a degree in Gender and Sexualities, Research, and Social Intervention from the Academy of Christian Humanism University and a master's in clinical psychology with a mention in psychoanalysis from Adolfo Ibáñez University. [3]
Lorenzini made her debut as a self-taught photographer in 1980. [4] Since then, her work has been published in periodicals such as the magazines Análisis , Hoy , and Pluma y Pincel, and the newspaper La Nación. [5] She takes inspiration from urban art present in Chile from the 1970s, passing through the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet into the reinterpretation of urban culture present in contemporary cities. [4] [6] Much of her photography has been devoted to documenting social protests. [7]
In 2010, she won the Altazor Award for National Arts in the photography category for Visible/Invisible, her exhibition with Helen Hughes and Leonora Vicuña. [8]
Lorenzini has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, including CowParade Santiago (2006), [9] Chile, geografía de niños (2000), Visible/Invisible at La Moneda Palace (2009), [10] Historia de Chile a través de la fotografía at the National Museum of Fine Arts (2010), [11] and Fragmentos/Memorias/Imágenes a 40 años del golpe at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (2013). [12]
In the 2017 general election, Lorenzini stood as a Broad Front candidate for senator, receiving 4,836 votes (1.3% of the total cast). [13] She is a member of Democratic Revolution and publicly advocates for women's rights, same-sex marriage, and LGBT rights. [14]
Lorenzini's left-wing politics and identification as a lesbian [1] caused conflict with her family early in life. She abandoned Catholicism at age 23. [1]