Text by Ruben Diaz Chaves
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Roberto Rivadeneira's work offers an in-depth study of the city, the urban landscape, and everyday life. His work focuses on exploring the elements that make up our daily surroundings, from buildings to the smallest and seemingly insignificant objects.

Rivadeneira pays special attention to the recurring patterns he finds in the city's architecture and infrastructure. Streetlights, cables, and security fences—often overlooked elements—become the focal points of his work. These elements serve as a source of reflection, as they represent how the city is illuminated, organized, communicates, and protects itself.

Using photography and 3D programs, the artist transforms and abstracts poles, cables, and fences to reveal a new dimension of urban reality, which could reflect on identity, memory, power, violence, resistance, and social change. His work invites us to see reality from a different perspective, to question and reflect on our own identity and our relationship with the space we inhabit.

By creating organic and dynamic forms, Rivadeneira expresses a new mode of appreciation based on abstraction. His work challenges our usual perception and invites us to see not a representation of the city but an interpretation that reveals a new way of seeing it. Through his work, Rivadeneira shows us that the city is not just a place of concrete, cables, and steel but a living and vibrant organism.

Rivadeneira draws inspiration from new practices of contemporary culture and his everyday observations to select specific elements that portray the diversity, complexity, and beauty of the city. His work is a mirror reflecting the realities, contradictions, challenges, and opportunities that urban life generates.

At the same time, Rivadeneira explores new forms of relationships between the individual and their environment, between the public and the private, between the material and the immaterial. His work invites us to reflect on our relationship with the city and to question our perceptions and prejudices. Ultimately, it challenges us to see the city with new eyes and appreciate the beauty and complexity hidden in the everyday.

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