Fistful of Love
Artist Reynaldo Rivera's second monograph, collecting almost four decades of his intimate and illicit "blue" works.
Fistful of Love showcases over one hundred photographs from Reynaldo Rivera’s personal archive, introducing never-before-seen images alongside some of the artist’s most iconic 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. Closer 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.…