FRANCISCO UCEDA
Francisco Uceda is a Bronx-based visual artist residing in Riverdale. Trained as a photographer with a background in Anthropology, Linguistics and Education, his recent work explores the boundaries between image, text, and material intervention through photography, collage, and mixed media. His practice engages with intertextuality, myth, and the poetics of visual fragmentation, often challenging conventional narratives and archetypes rooted in the Western imagination. He is the author and co-editor of several photo books, including La desolación del náufrago, Fulgores Vanos, Night and Day, and A todo lo que pase, y se borre y se pierda. Uceda has received multiple national and international awards, exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and works as an artist and educator in New York City.
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Creo que mi trabajo visual se basa en conceptos para los que utilizo la fotografía, el collage o el fotomontaje, o cualquier otra técnica o intervención. Utilizo la fotografía como herramienta para formular, comprender, cuestionar , visibilizar y denunciar nuestra realidad. Quiero presentar imágenes que provoquen una reflexión, no que sean pura anestesia. Prefiero crear ficciones y tratar de articular un discurso que pretender perseguir documentos o evidencias.