Javier Riera is a visual artist with a background in Fine Arts who works with light and geometry. His work has been presented in contemporary art museums as important as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Centro Niemeyer, the MUSAC in León, the CAB in Burgos, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago de Compostela. He has a solid career as an artist specializing in lighting interventions on the landscape in public spaces, generally parks and gardens.
He has carried out interventions in cities such as Sydney, Australia (Vivid Sydney 2024); Paris/Rouen/Le Havre, France (Paris, Nuit Blanche 2023); Durham, United Kingdom (Lumiere Durham 2019, 2021, 2023); Shenzhen China (Glow Shenzhen 2022); Lyon, France (Fête des Lumières 2022); Zagreb, Croatia (Zagreb Festival of Lights 2024); Parma, Italy (WWHT 2022); Bilbao, Spain (Gau Zuria 2022); Valladolid, Spain (TAC 2022); Aarhus, Denmark (Aarhus Festuge 2021); and Miami, USA (Knight Foundation 2020); among others.
Javier Riera's work is based on projections of light and geometry made directly on the vegetation with a concept of intervention on the landscape's time and space, which places him in a position close to the proposals of Land Art. His installations aspire to broaden the viewer's perception towards latent dimensions in the spaces in which he works, generating an experience of visibility in which there is calm and amazement at the same time. Riera conceives geometry as a natural language prior to matter, capable of establishing a kind of resonance with it. Here, geometry is a bridge between our interior and nature.