Cécile Rivals

RIV is a self-thaught artist specialized in painting, performance art and street-art. Coming from an artistic background, her mothers are, respectively, writer and photograph. Her brother is a musician. She was introduced to the artistic world at a very young age with theater and, later on, painting. She is an eclectic artist, women’s rights activist, who treats of the perception that she has of the world while incorporating a specific sensitivity to the notions of body, gender and sex. Therefo…See all

RIV is a self-thaught artist specialized in painting, performance art and street-art. Coming from an artistic background, her mothers are, respectively, writer and photograph. Her brother is a musician. She was introduced to the artistic world at a very young age with theater and, later on, painting. She is an eclectic artist, women’s rights activist, who treats of the perception that she has of the world while incorporating a specific sensitivity to the notions of body, gender and sex. Therefore she addresses themes like the social and theocratic grip, the reification of the women’s body and occidental societies’ anthropogenic environment. RIV inspires herself from artists like Barbara Kruger, Roman Cieslewicz, Roman Opalka, Koto Bolofo or even Lucien Clergue. Craddled by Barbara’s melodies as much as Peter tosh’s, she stays very influenced by Hip-hop culture.See less