Collected Item: “K & M, August of 2025”
Your Name
Fernanda Armada Hernández
Your Pronouns
she/her
Instagram handle, if any
ferarmadah
Work Title
K & M, August of 2025
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2025
[Image Rights] Do you confirm that you hold the rights to this image?
Yes
[Eligibility] The Curve Photo Contest proudly centers and uplifts people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women and nonbinary people. Please share how you self-identify, using language that feels most accurate to you. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.)
Lesbian, latinx, queer woman
[Artist Statement] Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement OR answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..." (Max. 100 words)
Within my practice, I explore memory through poetics of identity and territory. I create multidisciplinary art permeated by personal affects and politics. Through symbolic acts and objects, I evoke and question the construction of memory and perspective, documenting specific issues such as the erosion of bodies and territories caused by colonial and patriarchal practices. I gather the imprint of my surroundings, recording their traces through the objects I use. I am interested in experimentation and archiving as a process of searching and discovery where the medium is not only a tool but a language in itself. Through the materiality of the pieces, I establish connections and intersections around identity, the everyday as a bridge to the political, and positions from my feminist and queer subjectivity.
[Visual Description] Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text. Example: "Two women holding hands and smiling as they walk in a pride parade, surrounded by rainbow flags."
Double exposure photo taken by one part of the relationship without the other knowing what she took and then passing it to the other part of the relationship to complete the photo
[Agreement] In the event that you win the 2026 Curve Photo Contest, do you consent to having your photograph printed for the sole purpose of displaying at The Curve Foundation's one-day event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) during Lesbian Visibility Week? The Curve Foundation will cover printing costs, but will not cover costs for mailing the print after the event ends.
Yes
[Agreement] Do you consent to The Curve Foundation storing, sharing, and using this image and its description as we deem appropriate, including disseminating on our social media, website, and Curve Archive and Curve Quarterly?
Yes
[Agreement] By checking 'I understand' below, I acknowledge that this contest upholds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I confirm that my submission does not contain anti-LGBTQ+ or other discriminatory, hateful, or exclusionary content.
I understand