6 – 7 pm
ESTE FOCUS | About Non Onan Shinan
Chonon Bensho, artist (Ucayali)
in conversation with Pedro Favaron, researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima)
This program will be held in Spanish, without translation.

CHONON BENSHO

Chonon Bensho (1992) is an indigenous artist from the Shipibo-Konibo people of the Peruvian Amazon. She is a descendant of traditional Onanya healers and women who have preserved the craft and artistic traditions of their ancestors. She was born in the Native Community of Santa Clara de Yarinacocha in the Ucayali region. She pursued her professional studies at the Eduardo Meza Saravia School of Artistic Formation in the district of Yarinacocha. Chonon Bensho has developed an art with its own language, harmoniously combining academic art techniques with the legacy of ancient Shipibo artists. In 2022, she was the winner of the National Painting Competition of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, one of the most important awards in Peruvian art. She has held various exhibitions in Peru and abroad. Together with her husband, Pedro Favaron, Chonon has conducted ethnographic research among her own relatives and on her own culture. They have published academic articles in various indexed journals in Colombia and the United States.

PEDRO FAVARON

Pedro Favaron (1979) is an academic researcher, poet, writer, audiovisual artist, and social communicator. Currently, he works as a full-time and exclusive dedication professor in the Department of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). He is also a founding member of the Poetic Research Group of Mother Earth. In 2012, he completed a doctorate in Literature at the University of Montreal, Canada. Favaron has specialized in the study of oral literature of Amazonian nations, as well as various aspects of the thinking and spiritual practices of Andean and North American indigenous peoples. He has developed an ecological philosophy based on ancestral wisdom and medicinal ceremonies. Simultaneously, he has addressed issues of interculturality to foster a respectful dialogue between modernity and traditional indigenous thought. He has numerous academic articles and books published in various Latin American countries.