Painter and professor at the Escola Massana. Isidre Manils is a continual source of unique stylistic resources, as he manipulates reality through veils and transparencies: his brushstrokes create layers of diffused light, glowing with meaning. His research into “the cinematographic gaze of painting” is one of the constant features that has been present throughout his long career. These connections with film, as present as they are in his production, enable his work to open up to filmic language, thus laying out a new and highly original creative horizon.
Born into a family with Catalan origins, Carme Mariscal has ably positioned her work on the cusp of installation, photography and video, seeking to show the fragility, transformation and progressive dematerialization of the body. This interest for corporeality goes as far back as her earlier pictorial origins, coinciding with collaborations in a hospital with young people suffering from eating disorders. Another theme present in her work is the self-portrait, which in a tendency not from body art, has allowed her to reflect upon the subject of organic mutation as a conceptual and aesthetic allegory of identity, pleasure and suffering.