In the context of Ian Tevo´s Mercenario II exhibition, we invite you to a conversation between the artist and special guests Pablo Bravo, Kayra Flores, Jheinser Pacaya, and Macarena Puelles.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
7pm
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Lima
Centro Comercial Camino Real
Av. Camino Real 348, basement. San Isidro.
Free entry
About the participants
Paul Bravo
Originally from Iquitos, Pablo Bravo has managed to become a successful model, actor, businessman, porn producer, and director, based in Europe since 2013. Pablo has worked as a performer for FuckerMate, RawStrocks, BilatinMen, and his own production company, Machofucker, among others. He has won numerous awards such as PinkTV Best Active, PinkTV Best Interracial Production, Best Hustlaball Berlin Group Scene, and Best European Website GRABBYS AWARDS.
Besides being a costume designer, Pablo also works as a dancer at KitKat – Berlin, Raidd Bar – Paris, Salon Erótico – Barcelona, and La Demence – Brussels.
Kayra Flores
Model, actress, hostess, beauty lover, and a faithful believer of how wonderful trans women are. She is currently president of the only beauty organization in charge of sending queens to the most important trans women contests in the world, Miss Star and Queen Peru.
Jheinser Pacaya
Queer activist, community educator on issues of HIV prevention and treatment, and sexual health in general through the Asociación Civil Impacta San Miguel. Jheinser is a cultural manager, assistant director of the LGQTB+ fil festival OutfestPerú, member of Asociación Feminista Transformar, and the host of the Podcast #RadioTrans.
Macarena Puelles
Peruvian visual artist, who is also a creator of adult content and has a lingerie project called Arpía, for which she designs garments that belong to her visual universe. She specializes in documentary portraiture, through which she shows her restless curiosity about the world around her, human behavior, and emotions. Macarena’s work tends to have a very intimate approach, appealing to sensuality and what is made invisible by the normative discourse of the media.
About the artist
Ian Tevo is a Peruvian visual artist with years of experience in the press. He currently develops artistic projects as part of a personal need where he expresses a side of his personality with an anthropological point of view, which questions certain aspects of the male relationship with masculinity and the relationship of eroticism with transgression and feelings.
He is studying visual project management and photography at the Centro de la Imagen in Lima. In 2019, he participated in the documentary production workshop at Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV, San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. He has also participated in the documentary photography workshop with Víctor Blue and Kirsten Luce in Antigua, Guatemala (2014) and in the documentary essay workshop with Michael Robinson Chávez, photographer for the Los Angeles Times (2013). Between 2008 and 2011 he studied the career of a professional photography technician at Centro de la imagen, Lima.
His first individual exhibition, Mercenario I (2021), was presented at the Espacio Laboratorio gallery in Lima, and he has participated in various group exhibitions. Among the awards and distinctions, it is worth mentioning being the selected artist for Der Greif N° 12, edited by Broomberg & Chanarin (2019); honorable mention at the 5th Salón Nacional de la Fotografía del ICPNA, Lima (2017); nominated for Masterclass World Press Photo (2015); Fellow at Foundry Photojournalism, Guatemala (2014); among others.
Ian has also been developing his first feature film, entitled “El sueño Europeo” which narrates the migration to Europe of LGBTQ+ Latinxs who practice prostitution. This project was a finalist for the Pulitzer Center Travel Grant Persephone Miel in 2017 and 2018.
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