Lluís Tudela (Torroella de Montgrí, 1988) is based in Barcelona. His work explores the poetics of the image with exhibitions such as “Ulls de mussol”, a project he presented in Barcelona for Revela’t Festival 2021. He has exhibited “Les Anemones”, in collaboration with artist Rosa Tharrats, at Bombon Projects (Fonteta, 2020) and “Cap de fibló” at Mecànic (Barcelona, 2019), a project of which Noom Books edited a publication. In 2018 he published “Mal de Tierra”, a photo book edited by Clandestine Books. He has participated in “To lose your head”, a project selected by the Catalan pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2019 and in group exhibitions and projections in Valencia, Paris, London, Leeds, Roma, Buenos Aires and Washington.
About Cap de fibló – words by Lluís Tudela:
“Cap de fibló” (Waterspout) introduces a visual exploration about desire, influenced by symbolism and psychoanalysis. It is from the recognition of the spiral as a symbolic element in some images – as a guide to form and growth in nature or as a representation of thinking – that the photographer brings a series of photographs that dialogue on human drives and their coexistence in the environment.
Lluís Tudela’s work explores the poetics of the image and thinks about universal themes and contemporary motifs through the photographic expression. He begins from everyday life and naturalness to generate aesthetic and conceptual sensations. His gaze points towards ideas about the human psyche, the points of view and the organic and artificial processes – such as dualities, hybridizations, confrontations, camouflages, integrations, mutations or transformations – with a social commitment. Tudela supports analogue photography as a discipline capable of generating critical discourses in the contemporary art context.
