Kena Lorenzini

{{short description|Chilean psychologist, photographer, and activist}}

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| caption = Lorenzini at FILSA 2016

| birth_name = María Eugenia Lorenzini Lorenzini

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1959}}

| birth_place = Talca, Chile

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| occupation = Psychologist, photographer, writer

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| awards = Altazor Award (2010)

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| website = {{URL|http://lorenzinilorenzinikena.blogspot.com/}}

| party = Democratic Revolution

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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.

Early life and education

Kena Lorenzini was born in Talca in 1959 to a Catholic and Pinochetist family.{{Cite news|last1=Gallo|first1=Macarena|url=https://www.theclinic.cl/2012/06/13/chile-no-soportaria-a-una-pedro-lemebel-lesbiana/|title='Chile no soportaría a una Pedro Lemebel lesbiana'|newspaper=The Clinic|date=13 June 2012|access-date=25 May 2020|trans-title=Chile Could Not Bear a Lesbian Pedro Lembel|language=Spanish}} She completed secondary school at the Liceo Blanco Encalada in Talca in 1976.{{Cite web |url=https://www.tvn.cl/programas/quepasoconmicurso/capitulos/liceo-blanco-encalada-de-talca-2089647 |title=Liceo Blanco Encalada de Talca |publisher=Televisión Nacional de Chile |language=Spanish |date=2016-07-31 |access-date=2020-05-25}} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.fundacionhenrydunant.org/images/stories/diplomados_2015-2016/diversidad/CV_Docentes_Diversidad.pdf |title=Antecedentes académicos docentes |trans-title=Teachers' Academic Backgrounds |publisher=Fundación Henry Dunant |language=Spanish |year=2015 |access-date=2020-05-25}}

Career

Lorenzini made her debut as a self-taught photographer in 1980.{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={176f4a65-35ee-45dd-a6c0-395f83724582} |title=Recados callejeros de los 80 se juntan en libro fotográfico |trans-title=Street Messages from the 80s Come Together in a Photographic Book |first=Daniela |last=Silva Astorga |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=2010-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071926/http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={176f4a65-35ee-45dd-a6c0-395f83724582} |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}} Since then, her work has been published in periodicals such as the magazines {{ill|Análisis|es|Análisis (revista)}}, {{ill|Hoy (magazine)|es|Hoy (revista)|lt=Hoy}}, and Pluma y Pincel, and the newspaper La Nación.{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={476b6211-4f20-4c7e-89e5-c3e61b29069d} |title=Vivienda y decoración: Kena Lorenzini |trans-title=Housing and Decoration: Kena Lorenzini |first=Jordi |last=Castell |author-link=Jordi Castell |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=2001-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060206/http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={476b6211-4f20-4c7e-89e5-c3e61b29069d} |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}} 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.{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={1b94a5c4-8184-4cc5-96c4-00c87fbcfbae} |title=Lente Urbano |trans-title=Urban Lens |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=2001-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090804/http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={1b94a5c4-8184-4cc5-96c4-00c87fbcfbae} |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}} Much of her photography has been devoted to documenting social protests.{{Cite web |url=http://contintanegra.cl/2012/07/“soy-una-mujer-activista-y-ese-es-mi-norte”/ |title=Entrevista, Kena Lorenzini: 'Soy una mujer activista y ese es mi norte' |trans-title=Interview, Kena Lorenzini: 'I am a Woman Activist and This is My Goal' |website=Contintanegra |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713025930/http://contintanegra.cl/2012/07/%E2%80%9Csoy-una-mujer-activista-y-ese-es-mi-norte%E2%80%9D/ |archive-date=2013-07-13 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.premioaltazor.cl/helen-hughes-kena-lorenzini-y-leonora-vicuna/ |title=Helen Hughes, Kena Lorenzini y Leonora Vicuña |publisher=Altazor Awards |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016214140/http://www.premioaltazor.cl/helen-hughes-kena-lorenzini-y-leonora-vicuna/ |archive-date=2013-10-16 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}}

=Exhibitions=

Lorenzini has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, including CowParade Santiago (2006),{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={9702edbf-5416-48ae-b821-f13e69ec1d76} |title=Vacas invitan a dialogar con la ciudad |trans-title=Cows Invite Dialogue with the City |first=Heidi |last=Schmidlin Moore |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=2005-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084114/http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={9702edbf-5416-48ae-b821-f13e69ec1d76} |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}} Chile, geografía de niños (2000), Visible/Invisible at La Moneda Palace (2009),{{Cite web |url=https://www.ccplm.cl/sitio/fotografia-visible-invisible/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901014352/http://www.ccplm.cl/sitio/fotografia-visible-invisible/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 September 2017 |title=Visible/invisible: tres fotógrafas durante la dictadura militar en chile |trans-title=Visible/Invisible: Three Photographers During the Military Dictatorship in Chile |publisher=Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda |language=Spanish |year=2009 |access-date=2020-05-25 }} Historia de Chile a través de la fotografía at the National Museum of Fine Arts (2010),{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={1f77012a-720e-4031-8c72-79b7cb272405} |title=La primera historia fotográfica de Chile |trans-title=The First Photographic History of Chile |first=Maite |last=Armendáriz Azcárate |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=2010-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073037/http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={1f77012a-720e-4031-8c72-79b7cb272405} |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}} and Fragmentos/Memorias/Imágenes a 40 años del golpe at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (2013).{{Cite web |url=http://www.museodelamemoria.cl/expos/fragmentosmemoriasimagenes/ |title='Fragmentos/Memorias/Imágenes. A 40 años del Golpe' |trans-title=Fragments/Memories/Images. 40 Years Since the Coup |publisher=Museum of Memory and Human Rights |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424193347/http://www.museodelamemoria.cl/expos/fragmentosmemoriasimagenes/ |archive-date=2013-04-24 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}}

Politics

In the 2017 general election, Lorenzini stood as a Broad Front candidate for senator, receiving 4,836 votes (1.3% of the total cast).{{Cite news |url=https://www.emol.com/especiales/2017/actualidad/nacional/elecciones/resultados.asp#s5009 |title=Circunscripción 9 – Maule |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |access-date=2020-05-25}} She is a member of Democratic Revolution and publicly advocates for women's rights, same-sex marriage, and LGBT rights.{{Cite magazine |url=http://lavquen.tripod.com/entrevistaakenalorenzini.htm |title=Rompiendo el silencio: Parejas lésbicas |trans-title=Breaking the Silence: Lesbian Couples |first=Alejandro |last=Lavquén |magazine=Punto Final |number=736 |language=Spanish |date=2011-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208115437/http://lavquen.tripod.com/entrevistaakenalorenzini.htm |archive-date=2015-12-08 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-05-25}}

Personal life

Lorenzini's left-wing politics and identification as a lesbian caused conflict with her family early in life. She abandoned Catholicism at age 23.

Works

Fragmento fotográfico, arte, narración y memoria. Chile 1980–1990 (2006), {{ISBN|9789563104820}}
Marcas crónicas: fotografías de Kena Lorenzini (2010), {{ISBN|9789563350111}}
Parejas lésbicas: tramas del sufrimiento y emergencia de nuevos imaginarios en la subjetividad femenina (2010), {{ISBN|9789562605458}}
Diversidad sexual: 10 años de marchas en Chile (2011), {{ISBN|9789563350906}}
Todas íbamos a ser reinas: Michelle Bachelet (2011), {{ISBN|9789563350449}}
Visible/invisible: Hughes/Lorenzini/Vicuña: tres fotógrafas durante la dictadura militar. Ocho Libros (2012). Montserrat Rojas Corradi, Laura González, Mario Fonseca. {{ISBN|9789563351095}}.