Your name
Kendy Rivera
Place of birth
Morelos, México
Place where you live now
Morelos, México
3 words to describe you
archive, fiction, future
Why do you take pictures?
My interest in photography tries to focus on the importance of non-linear time, fiction and montage within an image, while alluding to a great interest in invisible things or at least those that the human eye does not have access to
Where do you get your inspiration?
A deep interest in the visual arts has driven me to explore various options that allow me to continue delving into the development of the image and its transformation. By using these photographs, I play within an imaginary that reveals the multiple meanings of the family album in a person's life, thus showing humanity's obsessive need to transform the image into something omnipresent. Paying attention to this need motivates me to conduct research around archival practice, altering reality, time and space in each image through digital and spatial aspects; proposing to redefine what was initially assigned to them.
Who are your influences?
Rosalind Franklin took the first photograph that revealed the double helix structure of DNA using a technique called crystallography. This led me to experiment with organic elements, which I then translate into photography to construct fictitious images. Micro-histories, legends, and myths from my childhood intertwine with these investigations, helping me remember the existence of multiple ways to construct knowledge beyond the great spaces of power.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
For more than 6 years I have been collecting anonymous photographs. And I seek that each selection can speak or have vestiges of the ways in which humanity has been built. They must represent a possibility floating in time, waiting to reintegrate, at least momentarily, into current reality and, if possible, into the future.
What impact would you like your art to have?
My work always talks about imagination as a space to build knowledge, knowing that we are capable of realizing what we imagine is something that I would like to share. That's why I usually refer to fiction, which we look at from afar but which reaches us quickly. The film The Elephant Man directed by David Lynch comes to mind, where the protagonist, lacking access to a concrete reality, resorts to imagining it to participate in its construction.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
The work that I never get bored of is Calling a Lost Dog Home, a photograph by Maruch Sántiz Gómez, an artist of Tsotsil origin who lives and works in Mexico. He travels through the communities where he lives to collect, orally and photographically, local myths and legends. By observing his work I was able to understand the possibilities that photography has to transfer memory outside the bodies that contain it.
Is there anything you want to add?
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