. Erika Nakazone (Peru)
. Graduated from the National University of Fine Arts in Lima, Peru, and with studies in Japanese-style painting from the University of Fine Arts of Okinawa, she currently resides in Japan. In 2003 she won a nomination in the 16th Drawing Japan's Nature exhibit at the Ueno Royal Museum. Nakazone's altarpiece-like objects fuse Latin American allegory and Japanese eshetics refer us to a poetics of (mixed) identity.

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