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Lupe Godoy is a Berlin-based contemporary visual artist, born in Spain and graduated from the University of Valencia. Her versatile artistic practice navigates the space between realism and abstraction, combining painting, works on paper, collage, and overpainted photography to create complex visual narratives.

Her work engages critically with socio-cultural and ecological issues, exploring the relationships between human experience, environment, and global cultural processes. By integrating recycled imagery with traditional painterly techniques, she develops layered compositions that question systems of representation, art historical references, and gender roles within contemporary visual culture.

Current projects are structured around three main thematic series: landscapes, boxes, and dystopias. In her landscapes, nature becomes a poetic and hybrid metaphor, reflecting both the majesty and fragility of the environment, and addressing climate change and the human relationship to ecological systems. The “One Box, One Voice” series uses found wooden boxes to explore migration, labor, and the precariousness of everyday survival in a globalized world, transforming ordinary objects into vessels of biography and social commentary. Her dystopian collages confront universal fears—loneliness, loss of orientation, environmental destruction—while maintaining an underlying aesthetic of hope and reflection.

Through these works, Godoy interrogates the processes of contemporary image-making and the ethical and poetic responsibilities of the artist. Her visual narratives are both critical and generative, inviting viewers to engage with global socio-ecological dynamics while contemplating the intimate and poetic dimensions of lived experience.

Lupe Godoy has lived and worked in Berlin since 1995.