About

Lurdes R. Basolí is a Catalan visual artist and photographer with a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Ramon Llull University. Her practice explores the relationships between identity, representation and power through photography, self-portraiture, collaborative processes and visual research. After beginning her career in photojournalism, her work evolved towards a critical approach informed by an ethics of consent and feminist and decolonial perspectives.

In 2009 she was awarded the Fotopres Grant from Fundación ”la Caixa”, and in 2010 she received both the Ani PixPalace Award at Visa pour l’Image and the Inge Morath Award from Magnum Photos, becoming the first Spanish photographer to receive the latter distinction. In 2023 she was awarded an OSIC Research and Creation Grant from the Government of Catalonia for her ongoing project la Sucursal.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at festivals, museums and art centres including Fundación Telefónica and CaixaForum (Madrid), Noorderlicht Photofestival (the Netherlands), Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (Germany), LagosPhoto Festival (Nigeria) and the Baku Museum of Modern Art (Azerbaijan).

She co-directed Danube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project, presented at PHotoESPAÑA 2016. She currently co-leads #serlobas with Elisa Miralles, a participatory visual research project that aims to broaden the visual imaginaries surrounding women’s bodies. She was artist-in-residence at Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts until 2025. She currently combines artistic practice and teaching, and directs LA_REL, a workshop dedicated to photography, visual storytelling and creative processes.

Her work is held in public and private collections including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (Venezuela), Fotohof (Austria), the DKV Collection, the Historical-Artistic Collection of the Diputació de Barcelona and the National Photography Collection of Catalonia.