Lluís Estopiñan Canals
Catalunya
Lluís Estopiñan (Mollet del Vallès, 1958) is a visual artist. Graduated in Fine Arts by the Escola Massana in Barcelona, he develops a hybrid practice between painting, photography, and installation, focusing on memory, perception, and the fragility of the image. He repurposes anonymous photographic materials such as negatives, old prints, or found objects, which he manipulates using techniques such as cyanotype, liquid emulsion, painting and collage. He claims gesture, time, and matter as forms of resistance.
He has exhibited in cities such as Paris, Berlin, Osaka, New York, and Barcelona, at the Royal Photographic Society, and at festivals such as Panoràmic, the 20/20 Photo Festival in Philadelphia, Revela'T, and Photopatagonia.
Winner of the 2019 BIPA, at LensCulture and a finalist in the Vila Casas Awards, his work conceives art as sensitive knowledge and a poetic space where memory and forgetfulness, presence and disappearance are in tension.
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Memory Gap
Memory Gap explores memory voids as active spaces rather than absences. These gaps not only reflect what has been forgotten but reveal our need to complete, reinterpret, or reinvent what is no longer clear. Forgetting becomes not a loss, but an opportunity to construct new narratives and meanings.
Here, memory is understood as something alive — a subjective construction shaped by time, emotions, and sensitivity. We remember by associating, distorting, and imagining, and in doing so, we also reinvent ourselves. The series fills these voids with symbolic fragments, found images, and borrowed evocations, generating unexpected intimacy.
Integrating elements from other series, Memory Gap underscores the timelessness of gesture and narrative, engaging in a self-referential dialogue with the language of photography. These works do not aim to complete what is missing but to highlight what is unseen or barely sensed — transforming fragility into reflection.
