IN BETWEEN HURT & HEALING
Sexual Healing SanctuaryFather FigureSource MessageAt the Beginning of the End of the World
MY PRACTICE
ABOUT
IN BETWEEN HURT & HEALING
Sexual Healing SanctuaryFather FigureSource MessageAt the Beginning of the End of the World
MY PRACTICE
ABOUT
Ryan Esquivel is a Filipino-Canadian artist and designer based in Amsterdam. His practice explores identity, transformation, and the space between rupture and repair.
Working through processes that embrace imperfection and intuition, Esquivel treats image-making as an act of becoming. Polaroid emulsion lifts—peeled, stretched, and layered like fragile skins—form the foundation of his tactile works, where material shifts mirror the slow, nonlinear nature of emotional healing.
His practice extends beyond the physical into time-based and digital work, where moments of lived beauty are reframed through quiet acts of attention and witnessing. Across still and moving images, Esquivel is drawn to thresholds—between intimacy and distance, faith and doubt, control and surrender.
Through his body of work, Esquivel continues to explore queerness, spirituality, and self-reclamation, creating work that honours the emotional trace, the human mark, and the evolving ways we construct meaning through images.