Mercè Soler (1976) is a bookbinder, writer and visual artist. She discovered bookbinding in Berlin and it was not until her return, ten years later, that she brought craft and concept together. Her books are transcriptions of things unsaid. Of uncommunication, of the secret, of the interpretation of what the other believes, of the powerlessness to express oneself and of the identity that we believe in depending on what we want or can show. Conversations that lead to objects stripped clean and almost hermetic, leaving a blank space that the spectator has to fill.

For some of her works, she has sought out other crafts or disciplines such as cakemaking, tattooing, hunting and microbiology. Her latest literary project is about holes: a collection of micro stories that speak about the border between the two worlds behind a hole.

Biography made in 2018