French photographer, born in 1999. Lives in Toulouse.
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Supported project: MP#06

After studying political science, sociology, and philosophy, Léa Pignard found in photography a visual extension of her questions about power relations, ideological constructs, and collective narratives. Her work lies at the intersection of social inquiry and documentary photography, with a particular focus on social divisions, gender dynamics, and the contradictions that run through contemporary narratives. She is currently completing her training at ETPA in Toulouse.

During MP#06, she will develop the series El arte pesa más que nunca, begun in 2024 based on negatives, a notebook, and a few hand-annotated silver prints found by chance in an old suitcase. These objects belonged to Ana Torres Llorens, a witness to a little-known episode in history: the evacuation of works from the Prado Museum across the Pyrenees in February 1939, as Franco’s troops approached. Léa Pignard is working to keep this forgotten memory alive.