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Lacra: 1.- Annoying person. Parasite. Disastrous. 2.- A person who inflicts damage to society. 3.- Has no trade and creates no benefit.

Jerónimo López Ramírez (alias Dr. Lakra) is an illustrator, tattoo and plastic contemporary artists. His work came to me when I acquired the book Dos Amigos (Two Friends) by Abraham Cruzvillegas and Dr. Lakra that was published by MACO (Oaxaca Contemporary Museum of Art) in 2005. The book is a reference to the exposition both artists has in that museum. I have seen the work of many m ore contemporary artists in the world like Zhang Huan, Doug Aitken, Greyson Perry, Christian Schumann and the well known Basquiat, to name a few. Much of the so called contemporary art gives me the sensation of returning to something, like going back to past experiences, a turning point to reliving certain sensations. They could be from early childhood, personal life, the house you lived in, that is, of all those intimate memories located in apparently little and insignificant things that endure or simply, a feeling that is brought to the present with a new meaning. At this point it is important to say that I recognize in Dr. Lakra a certain mexican background that I recognize as an important cultural identification feeling.

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