The diminishing present, by Nuno Porto & Ana Rita Amaral
2007This essay was first published in Martins’ The Diminishing Present. Porto and Amaral’s original essay break down the prevalent themes in Martins’ work and develop an in-depth visual semiotic analysis of each of them.
portuguese /Presente ameaçado: fronteiras e mitos, by Maria do Carmo Serén
2007This essay was first published in Martins’ The Diminishing Present. Serén explores how borders, non-place spaces and myths are tackled in Edgar Martins’ work and how they explore ideas of uncertainty about the future.
portuguese /Life is a beach, by Roy Exley
2007This essay was first produced to accompany a feature of Edgar Marins’ work in Hot Shoe Magazine. Exley’s essay deconstucts and analises Martins’ approach and methodology in The Accidental Theorist.
english / portuguese /The rehearsal of space, by Angus Carlyle
2006This essay was first produced to accompany a feature of Edgar Marins’ work in Hot Shoe magazine. Carlyle reflects on Martins’ photographs of forest fires.
english / portuguese /A paisagem no dualismo gnóstico do fim de milénio, by Maria do Carmo Serén
2002This essay was first published in Martins’ Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies. Serén explores how concepts such as borders, non-place spaces and dystopian myths are tackled in Edgar Martins’ work.
portuguese /I see a darkness, by Angus Carlyle
2002This essay was first published in Martins’ Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies. Carlyle explores Martins’ reference to black holes in the landscape. He argues that they are a metaphor for reason at the point of exhaustion as we can no longer identify the signs and language that the modern city yields.
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