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Amorphous
Rivera's work explores the notion of unconscious memory, mythical collective fears and primitive child-like emotion. Setting up a distant point of view from eyes of the other, he contextualises an enquiry into the self in both object casting and filmmaking. In his film, Mar do Rostro, the dawning of self-awareness confronts the pilgrim with his own narcissism by contrasting the symbolism of the mythical characters with contemporary popular culture. Rivera then recollects the transformation of myth and its shifted value in our unconsciousness, making them into the amorphous figures. These distorted characters, generated from the universal-fairy-tale, constantly evolve while recalling the unconscious memory in our childhood. |
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Jorge Rivera (b. 1973 La Coruña, Spain) lives and works in London
Rivera completed an MA at the Royal College of Art where he is currently doing his PhD in sculpture. He has exhibited internationally, including Sotheby's in Chigago, Vienna and Tel-Aviv (2001); solo shows in Nagoya, Takumy Museum 2002, Madrid Galeria 57 (2003), Galeria Caracol, Valladolid (2003); international art fair ARCO'03, ARCO'05 and Project-rooms ARCO'04; Galeria SCQ in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2004), Parlamento de Galicia, Spain (2005, 2006), . He was a finalist of the Madame Toussauds Prize 2002 and Purificacion Garcia Prize in 2004 |
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