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Cesar Cornejo's work addresses socio-political issues with particular focus in his native Peru and the way it translates into international contexts, through the use of processes which he has incorporated through his architectural background and his experience living and working in Japan, London, New York and Peru. His work includes architectural installations that investigate new models of relations between the individual and the built environment; through redefining traditional models like the museum, turning it into a community based institution that revitalizes the community, improves living conditions and generates opportunities for financial growth and development; anti-architectural installations that reflect on the repressive role that architecture plays in society, from the private spheres to the institutional ones, sculptures that represent architectural models of larger conceptual models, interactive installations that spatially express and alleviate grief caused by traumatic acts of social injustice, performances that promote communication in unusual circumstances and spaces, photography that modifies images of buildings to create fictional ones that superpose opposite realities. Paintings that are displayed as part of installations that represent the spaces where the objects described originally belonged and drawings which are narratives of situations that address the relation of the individual with architecture.