Civilization: The Way We Live Now @ Ullens Art Centre, Beijing

This major exhibition, curated by William Ewing, features the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers, including Edgar Martins. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization, in all its complexity.

Destinerrance @ Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

This exhibition combines for the first time images from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes & What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase. It addresses a broader consideration of the status of the photograph when questions of visibility, ethics, aesthetics and documentation overlap.

The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ The New Walk Museum, Leicester, UK

This exhibition is the fifth in the worldwide tour of Martins’ pioneering and award-winning project developed from a three year collaboration with the European Space Agency. This exhibition reflects on the new politics of space exploration as well as the impact of this kind of technological application on our social consciousness.

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid

This exhibition is a new iteration of the project developed with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, between 2013 and 2017. It’s a poignant study on the tensions and contradictions inherent in the representation and imagination of death.

Destinerrance: The Place of the Dead is the Place of Photography @ Centro de Arte José de Guimarães, Portugal

Developed with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, this exhibition is Martins’ most accomplished project to date. It’s a poignant study on the representation of death and the decisive but paradoxical role that photography has played in its intelligibility and perception.

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ MAAT, Lisbon

29/06/2016 – 14/10/2016

This exhibition is phase one of a wide-reaching exhibition project developed with MAAT and Cristina Guerra gallery. It’s a poignant study on the representation of death and the decisive but paradoxical role that photography has played in its intelligibility and perception.

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

This is the first exhibition in the worldwide tour of the project developed with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, between 2015 and 2017. It explores the tensions and contradictions inherent in the representation and imagination of death, in particular suicide.