Artist talk - Harry Pinedo - Newcastle Contemporary Art (NCA)

Join artist, educator, and community activist Harry Pinedo as he shares insights from his experience of migration and his multifaceted practice in the Shipibo community of Cantagallo in Lima.

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”.