Francisca Rivero Lake- Cortina, Carla Verea Hernández. Lake Verea

Lake Verea is a queer art duo founded in Mexico City in 2005, comprised of Francisca Rivero-Lake Cortina (Mexico City, December 11, 1973) and Carla Verea Hernández (Mexico City, February 3, 1978). Their artistic practice focuses on experimentation with expanded photography, incorporating other media such as installation, textiles, performance, and video. 

They experiment with photographic techniques and formats to create intimate and personal portraits. Memory, portraiture, modern architecture, and the exploration of artists' archives are their main themes of research. Their photographic work is characterized by the use of analogue and digital cameras of various formats, depending on the project, ranging from 19th-century cameras to iPhones. 

The cameras become allies and extensions of their own bodies. In many of their projects, they work with two cameras simultaneously, which they exchange during the session, to eliminate the issue of authorship while reinforcing their identity as a duo. In other projects, they create characters that they embody during the research phase and photo shoots in order to create alternative narratives. Their areas of interest intertwine and reinforce each other. The main objective is to approach the subject or object of research in the pursuit of intimacy and to tell stories from a different, personal perspective, one that questions monolithic history and seeks to shed light on other ways of seeing what we think we know.