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Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb.

This a documentary project, a novel, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It responds to the death and disappearance of the author’s close friend –photojournalist Anton Hammerl– during the 2011 Libyan war, through an examination of the geography and circumstances surrounding his demise as well as a reflection on the paradoxical role that photography has played in conflict zones.

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Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb.

This a documentary project, a novel, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It responds to the death and disappearance of the author’s close friend –photojournalist Anton Hammerl– during the 2011 Libyan war, through an examination of the geography and circumstances surrounding his demise as well as a reflection on the paradoxical role that photography has played in conflict zones.

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Rebel in hiding

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins 2023 series Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt…. It responds to the death and disappearance of the author’s close friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl’s, during the 2011 Libyan war, through an examination of the geography, players and circumstances surrounding his demise.

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Cake iced with grief

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins 2023 series I’m Still Here, and explores Freud’s early ideas about scopophilia (the pleasure of looking). Whilst Martins’ doesn’t fully subscribe to Freud’s views he does however agree that we must model a way of seeing that is capable of withholding some ‘secrets’.

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Lockup is a piece of piss compared to lockdown + NFT

This dypthic was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, a project which results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands. The artwork was inspired on a snide remark made by an offender Martins befriended, who was released during the first lockdown of 2020, and who commented that  Lockup is a piece if piss compared to lockdown”.

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Lipograph Light Study #1

Edgar Martins’ experimental Lipograph Light Studies are created by exposing different lightwaves and light patterns onto photo sensitive paper. In this series Martins adopted Georges Perec’s lipogrammatical approach to deal with the difficult and complex topic of the death and disappearance of his good friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, during the 2011 Libyan war.

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Untitled #1, The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise + NFT

This artwork is part of an experimental series developed by Edgar Martins during lockdown, as a reflexion on how Photography  has become inextricably aligned to Technocapitalist doctrine. The works in this series challenge this notion and are produced, entirely, by making use of the by-products of the printing process and items that would normally be discarded.

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Untitled #2, The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise + NFT

This artwork is part of an experimental series developed by Edgar Martins during lockdown, as a reflexion on how Photography  has become inextricably aligned to Technocapitalist doctrine. The works in this series challenge this notion and are produced, entirely, by making use of the by-products of the printing process and items that would normally be discarded.

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The Missing Years

This dypthic was produced in the context of the artist’s latest project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, a project which results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands, their families and a myriad of other individuals and community groups in the region.

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What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase

This project results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands (UK), their families and local organisations and individuals. By giving a voice to his subjects, the author proposes to rethink and counter the sort of imagery normally associated with incarceration and confinement.

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Make Men Great Again

This dypthic was produced in the context of the artist’s latest project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, a project which results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands, their families and a myriad of other individuals and community groups in the region.

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What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase

This project results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands (UK), their families and local organisations and individuals. By giving a voice to his subjects, the author proposes to rethink and counter the sort of imagery normally associated with incarceration and confinement.

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Would You Shed Your Skin for Me?

This dypthic was produced in the context of the Edgar Martins’ award winning project Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, a project developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal, exploring the tension between concealment and revelation.

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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Produced in collaboration with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, between 2013 and 2017, this project is a reflexion on the tensions and contradictions inherent in the representation and imagination of death, in particular suicide, and the decisive but deeply paradoxical role that photography has played in its intelligibility and perception.

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It Kills Pain

This dypthic was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, a project developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal.

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Destinerrance

This book surveys the largest exhibition to date of the project Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, at the CIAJG, Portugal, forcing us to consider photography’s role in the intelligibility of death.

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00:00.00

In 2014 Edgar Martins approached BMW with a simple idea: to stop the production lines in order to photograph Plant Munich. Although the project surveys on the surface the fabrication, tooling and assembly of the modern era automobile vehicle, it also represents a point of resistance: to the world of flux and flow that we live in, to a world haunted by mobility, transience and uncertainty.

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Aluminium Honeycomb Assembly, M & C Laboratory, ESA-ESTEC

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, a project which resulted from a three year collaboration with the European Space Agency and which represents the most comprehensive survey ever assembled about a leading scientific and space exploration organization.

 

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The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite

In 2012, Edgar Martins was granted unparalleled access to The European Space Agency (ESA) and its private aerospace partners. Martins’ project reflects the ever-growing role of science and technology in our society and our relationship with the unknown, whilst opening up wider questions around epistemology, metaphysics and ultimately humanity’s conception of itself.

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The Time Machine

Shot between 2010 and 2011, this book is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. No more than half a dozen people run power stations which, in some cases, were intended to house up to 250 workers just a few decades ago. This project is, thus, not just about the generation of power of also of dreams and technological utopias.

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Lifting bolt used to disassemble the generating sets, 1Kg, 40x220mm

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ The Time Machine. Shot between 2010 and 2011, The Time Machine is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. In recovering a past of exciting technological innovation and optimistic belief in the future, these photographs suggest that they are not just about the generation of power but also of dreams and technological utopias.

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The Time Machine

Shot between 2010 and 2011, this book is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. No more than half a dozen people run power stations which, in some cases, were intended to house up to 250 workers just a few decades ago. This project is, thus, not just about the generation of power of also of dreams and technological utopias.

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The Time Machine

Shot between 2010 and 2011, this book is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. No more than half a dozen people run power stations which, in some cases, were intended to house up to 250 workers just a few decades ago. This project is, thus, not just about the generation of power of also of dreams and technological utopias.

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This is not a House

This series, by Edgar Martins, brings us a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that struck the lives of many thousands of people, in the wake of the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the USA. This beautifully printed collector’s edition comes with an 8×10″ C-print in a total edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist.

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This is not a House

In study that goes beyond mere documentation, this publication brings us a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that struck the lives of many thousands of people, in the wake of the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the USA.

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This is not a House

In study that goes beyond mere documentation, this publication brings us a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that struck the lives of many thousands of people, in the wake of the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the USA.

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The Wayward Line

This publication is produced within the context of Edgar Martins’ retrospective exhibition at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris (Oct-Dec 2010) and brings together images from series created between 2005-2010, making possible a transverse appraisal of his photographic production, its unique characteristics, and conceptual framework.

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When Light Casts no Shadow

This project was developed in a key number of European airports with an important role in  history or the history of aviation.
Almost all the images were produced at night, using an 8×20″ or 8×10″ camera as well as the aprons’ floodlights, moonlight, long or double exposures of between ten minutes to two hours. Sky and ground merge in darkness with only the lights and airport hieroglyphics to orient us.

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Aproximações

Produced over a period of 12 months with the Portuguese Airport Administration Authorities this book surveys the modern airport. Pictured as the elementary expression of abstract space, in Martins’ images sky and ground collide, overlap and blur.

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The Diminishing Present

Produced almost entirely within a 3km radius of the author’s home, and inspired by Salman Rushdie’s critique of the film The Wizard of Oz, The Diminishing Present is a visual contemplation on the concept of home and what it means to belong somewhere.

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Topologies

This seminal book is brings together 5 bodies of work, inspired by both early 18th century evocations of the sublime and contemporary pictorial traditions.
But for all its historical evocation, the photographs in this publication are fraught with anxieties about ruin.

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Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies

This seminal book is an excursus on the metastization of the urban frontier. Produced in South-East China, Portugal and South Africa the author uses the ‘black hole’ in the landscape  as a way to rethink our relationship with the modern de-centred city.

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