 As a performance artist and writer, his work is characterized by the use of provocation and resentment as tools for political and social criticism.In 1995 he published his first book of chronicles "La esquina es mi corazón", other important works are the chronicles "De perlas y cicatrices" (1998) and "Adiós mariquita linda" (2005).Lemebel died in January 2015 because of laryngeal cancer.