{"product_id":"rivera-reynaldo-fistful-of-love","title":"Rivera, Reynaldo - Fistful of Love","description":"Artist Reynaldo Rivera's second monograph, collecting almost four decades of his intimate and illicit \"blue\" works. Shot from the 1980s to the present, the candid photographs in this raw, erotic series capture moments of privacy and pleasure. The series features the recurring figures of the artist's lovers, friends, and sisters, pictured in their most undressed states, and movingly portrays relationships that have since ended—loves later lost, glimpsed before their undoing.\nCloser to the present, the series also includes writers and artists who have more recently entered Rivera's life and agreed to pose seductively, performatively for his camera. There is a sultry moodiness to the series, as well as a fondness for the “indecent” and illicit, for moments that were not staged and not meant to be seen. Rivera's subjects, many of them photographed at the height of the AIDS epidemic, are presented neither as predator nor prey, but in more human terms of love, lust, longing, and selffulfillment.\nComplementing this quietly monumental archive is a curated assortment of texts, including an introduction by Lauren Mackler; a set of specially commissioned “blue” writings by authors Constance Debré, Devan Diaz, Raquel Gutierrez, Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, Brontez Purnell, Reynaldo Rivera, Abdellah Taïa, Colm Tóibín, and Justin Torres; and a selection from poet Gil Cuadros’s canonical collectionCity of God.","brand":"MIT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50328157880598,"sku":"RMX-50976","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/72e778b1f7264f0fd0f02ec94b943dfb.jpg?v=1753894067","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/rivera-reynaldo-fistful-of-love","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}