Xavier Manrique (Barcelona, 1968) is a photographer whose work focuses primarily on landscape and nature through a contemplative approach. His practice centres on light, silence, and the fragility of form, developed through slow observation and a sustained relationship with the territory.

His work explores landscape as a perceptual and emotional space, moving away from descriptive representation towards a photography connected to memory, presence, and disappearance. His projects create atmospheres where time seems to slow down and where nature ceases to be a setting and becomes a living, changing presence.

Often articulated through series, diptychs, and photobooks, his work develops open and poetic visual narratives. Rather than describing a specific place, his images seek to create spaces of pause and contemplation, where the landscape becomes an inner experience and photography turns into a way of inhabiting time and the natural world.

Trajectory

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

• Valid Foto Gallery — Barcelona (2019–2024)
• ArtsLibris — Barcelona / ARCO Madrid (2021–2025)
• FIG Bilbao — Bilbao (2024)
• Tbilisi Art Fair — Tbilisi (2022, 2024)
• Art Photo BCN — Barcelona (2022, 2023)
• Festimage — Calella (2023)
• Revela’t Festival — Vilassar de Dalt (2022)
• Fiebre Photobook — Madrid (2022)
• Olot Photography Biennial — Olot (2022)
• Utopia Market — Barcelona (2021)
• FineArt Igualada — Igualada (2021)
• Museu de la Mediterrània — Torroella de Montgrí (2020)
• OFNI / Valid Foto — Barcelona (2019)
• Hotel H10 Art Gallery — Barcelona (2016)

Awards and recognitions

• Honorable Mention — Luminic Festival, Sant Cugat del Vallès (2026)
• Finalist — Mezquita Award, Córdoba (2026)
• Finalist — Fundació Vila Casas Award (2023)
• Finalist — Mezquita Award, Córdoba (2018)
• Special Award Girona Regions — Montphoto (2017)
• Coup de Coeur — Photo Nature Montier-en-Der, France (2015)

Representation

Valid Foto BCN Gallery.