Lluís Estopiñan Canals
Unchained memories
"Unchained Memories" is a series of works made recently with analog photographic procedures such as liquid emulsion with pictorial or collage interventions and also paintings with photographic interventions.
These works approach from different angles and techniques the question of memories, the record, the manipulation of memory or its more enigmatic and hidden side.
Starting from anonymous and old photographic material, this is manipulated and recontextualized giving it a new meaning combining reflection and emotion.
The purpose is to stir up dormant memories and emotions and invite reflection on who we are and how we came to be this way: that is, on the role of memories in our lives.
Lluís Estopiñan Canals
I'm a long-career painter but ten years ago I fell in love with photography and incorporated it into my work, especially in old analogue processes.
I am interested in the process as part of the discourse in each project in which I want it to make sense and that results in something palpable, not virtual and that combines reflection and emotion.
Images on media sometimes used as a mirror where our emotions and memories are reflected; as a wall on which to express them, or as a window to access other mental spaces.
The questions that have motivated my work refer to life as a temporal space of possibilities, or the perception of reality and also, more recently, everything that revolves around memory as a central element of our changing identity with the passage of time
These works carried out in recent years combining painting and collage with analogue photographic procedures such as cyanotype or liquid emulsion with collage or pictorial interventions, approach from different angles and forms the relationship of photography with the passage of time, memories, the record, the manipulation of memory, its enigmatic side, hidden or its traces.
Often starting from anonymous old photographic material that I manipulate, re-contextualize or give new meanings, I seek in each series through the image, but also through the technique and the material, to remove memories and emotions dormant in us.
I would like to stimulate reflection on who we are and how we have shaped ourselves in this way based on overlapping experiences, learnings, emotions... and the memory of all of it, personal, non-transferable, personalized and incommunicable.
Career (CV)
Graduated at the eightees by the Escola Massana in Barcelona, He has not stopped working in painting, artistic installations and photography in both analogue and digital forms, which works he has exhibited in galleries and art centers in Catalonia and Spain, but also internationally with an extensive curriculum that can be consulted in detail on the website: https://www.estopinyan.com/about/
Just considering the last few years, the recent works on memory and identity made with a fusion of techniques have been exhibited, individually or collectively, among other places at the Royal Photographic Society in a traveling exhibition around the United Kingdom or at the Can Framis Museum of the Vila Casas Foundation in Barcelona and at Palau Solterra de Torroella de Montgrí as a finalist for the painting and photography awards respectively.
Winner of the LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2019 with a special jury mention, at the “LensCulture Discoveries” exhibition, Galerie Joseph/Braque Paris.
As a winner of the Barcelona International Photography Award at the Galeria Valid Foto Barcelona and also the Galeries Esther Montoriol, Art Enllà and Barcelona Visions and H10 Art Gallery in Barcelona.
At the Festivals: Panoràmic Granollers in an exhibition curated by Joan Fontcuberta; Noviembre Fotos Festival Buenos Aires; Photopatagonia Río Gallegos, Argentina; AnalogMania Timisoara, Romania; Festival Internacional de la Imagen Manizales, Colombia; 20/20 Philadelphia PhotoFestival, USA; Revela't Festival Vilassar de Dalt; FineArt Igualada Barcelona, etc.
And also at the Galeries Marya-Osaka and Shima City Gallery in Japan; Plaxall Gallery New York, USA; Into.Gallery Berlin, Marges-U Cadaqués; Lucía Dueñas Oviedo; Espai G d’Art Terrassa and the Museum of Granollers, Museu Abelló Mollet, Barcelona and the Art Photo BCN La Capella Barcelona and Tbilisi Art Fair Georgia and Remèdes Galerie Paris, among other venues.
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