This essay was commissioned in the context of a collaboration between QUART magazine & Edgar Martins. It tells the tale of a family’s dystopian trip to the mountains of Innsbruck, Austria.

This essay was first published in the catalogue of Martins’ exhibition The Wayward Line, at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris. Mah’s essay analises Martins’ fictional and real topographies and how they reflect on the place of the photographic.

This essay was first published in the catalogue of Martins’ exhibition The Wayward Line, at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris. Osborne examines the importance of fiction in the depiction of the ruins of the 2008 US housing market.

This essay was first published in the catalogue of Martins’ exhibition The Wayward Line, at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris. Lageira discusses the concept of vagueness in relation to Martins reductive images.

This essay was first published in Martins’ This is not a House. Cradock analises Martins’ poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that followed the 2008 economic crisis and his use of fiction, from an art-history perspective.

This essay was produced to accompany Edgar Martins’ exhibition When Light Casts no Shadow at Porta33, Funchal. Medeiros’ poetic essay explores Martins’ reductionist aesthetics, use of fiction and darkness to explore the limits of perception.