Lara Amat

Lara Amat (Barcelona, 1989) graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, where she first explored photography, sculpture and printmaking. She later specialized in photography at Observatori Photo, delving into the relationship between image, time and material memory. Her current artistic practice focuses on the idea of landscape and the materiality of the image, understood as a space for reflection and experimentation. Awarded the production grant of the 16th Can Basté Photographic Forum (2020), she has presented her work in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as Centre Cívic Can Basté, Festival Lumínic, La Bianyal and Espai 19.

Ricardo Guixà

Ricardo Guixà is a photographer, researcher and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. His theoretical work has focused on the epistemology of photography, specializing in its interactions with science and art. His creative practice explores the boundaries of photography from an existentialist perspective. Combining it with sculpture, painting or scientific instruments, he seeks to push beyond the limits of the visible to reveal a more complex reality than the one we perceive through our senses, turning photography into a medium of revelation with plastic and subjective potential.

Léa Habourdin

Born in 1985 in northern France, Léa Habourdin first studied printmaking at the École Estienne before turning to photography at the École d’Arles. Attentive to the diversity of life forms, her practice seeks to discover other ways of connecting with the world around us. Drawing inspiration from fields as varied as ethology, applied sciences and botany, she develops a body of work where drawing and photography intertwine, and where the book and printed object play a vital role.

Her work has been widely recognized: she received the Carte Blanche PMU-Le BAL Award in 2015, the CIPGP research grant in 2019, the CNAP creation grant in 2020, and was featured at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2022 and later at the Centre d’art de Pont-en-Royans. In 2023 she was awarded the Photo London Emergent Photographer of the Year. She also received a grant from the Institut Français to undertake a residency in Lithuania.

Gabriel Leger

Gabriel Leger (France, 1978) is a visual artist based between Paris and Athens. Informed by historical and literary references, his work revolves around the notion of time. He is particularly interested in objects and fragments handed down from distant pasts. Through incursions into archaeology and religious anthropology, he seeks to recover the porosity between past and present. He uses materials with strong connotations such as bitumen, honey, wax and ancient artefacts. Representative works include Deep Time (2020), a contemporary production of 7,000 amulets cast from ancient Egyptian moulds, and The One is the All (2020), a recreation of an Egyptian beer brewed with genuine 3rd-century wheat.

Hanako Murakami

Hanako Murakami (Tokyo) lives and works in Paris. After studying at the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre (Brussels) and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing), she developed an international career in the United States as an artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) and the George Eastman Museum (Rochester). Her practice focuses on alternative photographic processes predating the industrialization of the medium, recovering forgotten techniques such as 19th-century thermography. Through meticulous archival research into manuscripts by inventors such as Louis Ducos du Hauron, Murakami explores the poetic and conceptual dimension of photography, questioning its origins, nomenclatures and the fragility of its material supports.

Rebecca Mutell

Rebecca Mutell holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. Her artistic and research practice centers on the materiality of photography. She has developed projects such as Eclipses de 1′ en 1′ (PhotoEspaña 2024) and Reazione Nera. Cajal and the Nervous Impulse of Photography (Museo Universidad de Navarra, 2023). She co-authored, with Martí Llorens, the book Buscando lo imposible. Una antología de textos sobre el origen de la fotografía (MUN, 2024).

She is a member of Factoria Heliogràfica, a space dedicated to photographic production and research. Mutell combines artistic creation with teaching as a professor at BAU, Design College of Barcelona, where she also takes part in research projects exploring the image and its material transformations.

Joaquín Paredes

Joaquín Paredes is a photographer specializing in historical processes. He combines his personal projects with teaching at institutions such as the Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, The National Library of Wales, the Centro de Documentación de la Imagen de Santander, the Real Academia de España in Rome, the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, the London Science Museum, the University of Barcelona, the University of Seville and the Museo Universidad de Navarra, among others. He has exhibited his work at venues such as La Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica (Palazzo Barberini, Rome), the ICCD (Rome), the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), Segovia Foto and PhotoEspaña. He has also taken part in Encontros de Artistas Novos (2018) and OpenPhoto Sevilla, and is co-director of the Revela-T artist residency.