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Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira

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Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira

Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira is a Photography who looks at identity, memory, feminity, and memories in particular in nature. Her landscapes are engaging and though provoking, in her series MEDA, her images show the body embedded in the landscape. The female body and nature unite and become one. She is using the body as a metaphor for knowledge. It is a symbol for knowledge and being at one the land. She is also comparing the female body and the land as nature is not the first land we live in, the body is. They share similarities. Stardust Woman(see fig. 1)reminds me of a far away galaxy. The swirls of the rock teamed with the ‘stardust’, looks like something cosmic. 

(Fig. 1. Stardust Woman (2018-2019))

The image from the series I like the most shows a women tangled among the branches. Th woman looks like an extension of the tree (see fig. 2). Her limbs blend with the limbs of the tree.

(Fig. 2. Untitled (2018-2019))

In her series Rowing Chants, Rivadeneira uses it as a chance to document her personal journey in Toas. This series only contains seven images, and for Rivadeneira it is her thank you to nature. Each image is presented with two images and with a poem. One image is of nature and the other is a female body. La Medida (see fig. 3)shows trees branches reaching to the sky, in the other image is a woman reaching her arms up to the sky. One line of the accompanying text states, “the outline of my body is always the inline of nature” (Miranda-Rivadeneira (2019)). 

(Fig. 3. La Medida)

The next images is entitled 13:42 (see fig. 4), and shows a textured wall next to the back of a woman. Her images are comparing the body to nature. 

(Fig. 4. 13:42 (2019))

The contrast between nature and the female body is a strong one. The artist is saying that this is how close she feels to nature, how we and nature can become one.

Bibliography

LensCulture. About Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira. At: https://www.lensculture.com/Karen-Miranda-Rivadeneira(Accessed on 25th of July 2019).

Miranda-Rivadeneira, K. Stories. At: www.insgain.com/user/karenmirandarivadeneira/495640902(Accessed on 25th of July 2019). 

Miranda-Rivadeneira, K. (2019). MEDA. At: https://phmuseum.com/katenmiranda/story/MEDA-/b24faf75e(Accessed on 25th of July 2019). 

Figures

Fig. 1. Miranda-Rivadeneira, K. (2018-2019). Stardust Woman. [Photography – Online]. At: https://phmuseum.com/katenmiranda/story/MEDA-1624faf75e(Accessed on 25th of July 2019). 

Fig. 2. Miranda-Rivadeneira, K. (2018-2019). Untitled. [Photograph – Online]. At: phmuseum.com/karenmiranda/story/MEDA-1b24faf75e(Accessed on 25th of July 2019). 

Fig. 3. Miranda-Rivadeneira, K. La medida. [Photograph – Online]. At: karenmiranda.com/rowing-chants(Accessed on 25th of July 2019). 

Fig. 4. Miranda-Rivadeneira, K. (2019). 13:42. [Photography – Online]. At: karenmiranda.com/karenmiranda.com/rowing-chants(Accessed on 25th of July 2019).