Lourdes Cabrera (Córdoba, Spain, 1979) is a photographer and filmmaker whose practice unfolds between Madrid and Bologna.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work emerges from intuition, from the secret, the sacred, and the mysterious. It is rooted in a space of profound intimacy—vulnerable, irrational, and deeply human—where what cannot be explained begins to reveal itself.
My images move between the carefully staged and the quietly found. Whether constructed or drawn from everyday life, they trace a search for identity and for a fragile balance between ourselves and the world we inhabit.
I am drawn to those moments when time seems to pause and the gaze lingers on what might otherwise go unnoticed. Within these quiet encounters, the ordinary becomes charged with mystery, tenderness, and subtle tension.
I work through observation, allowing one image to lead to the next as echoes emerge between them. Photography becomes a space where sediments of reality give rise to new narratives—stories that do not seek to explain, but to evoke; to leave room for ambiguity, memory, and feeling.
Ultimately, my work invites a slower way of looking. It offers a space where warmth and cold, strength and fragility, presence and absence coexist, and where the extraordinary can be glimpsed within the everyday.