mueve (galería ), Lima
Katherinne Fiedler, Neyra Pérez
A river is never only water. It is a material force that shapes territory before becoming what appears as an atemporal, assimilable image. It organizes labour, extraction, and settlement while sustaining forms of memory and belief. Neyra Pérez and Katherinne Fiedler approached from that momentum: not as a motif, but as a constantly reconfigured system of relations.
In Neyra Pérez’s practice, rooted in the Iskonawaworld (Peruvian Amazon), the river operates within a continuum where body, forest, and spirit pass into each other through mud and dye, as currents complete the process. The work is made with the river conjointly.
Fiedler traces another regime. Her research on the Bièvre maps the passage from living geography into infrastructure. The river feeds industry, structures urban growth, and becomes function. Later buried, it persists as a hidden system. Leather, pipes, and chains in her work register this shift: flow contained, visibility suppressed.
Between these positions, the river appears as a site where cosmology, economy, and control intersect. Around the río Callería (Ucayali, Peru), it remains embedded in a holistic system while exposed to extraction. In Paris, it is instrumentalized and concealed. Across these works, landscape is never neutral. The river carries, erodes, and reorganizes relations.
