00:00.00 @ Usimages Biennale of Industrial Photography, Picardy, France
27/04/2018 - 07/06/2019The second edition of the Usimages Biennale features ten outdoor exhibitions organized by the urban community of Creil and by the photography centre of Picardie, Diaphane. The event explores the representation of industry in the history of photography.
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Destinerrance @ Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
12/10/2018 - 10/11/2018This 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.
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The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ The New Walk Museum, Leicester, UK
26/05/2018 - 11/07/2018This 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.
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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid
01/02/2018 - 17/03/2018This 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.
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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ Oxford Photography Festival, UK
08/09/2017 - 24/09/2017This exhibition is based on a collaboration with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, between 2015 and 2017, exploring the tensions and contradictions inherent in the representation and imagination of death, in particular suicide.
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Destinerrance: The Place of the Dead is the Place of Photography @ Centro de Arte José de Guimarães, Portugal
28/01/2017 - 04/06/2017Developed 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.
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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
22/09/2016 - 04/11/201622/09/2016 – 04/11/2016
This exhibition is phase two 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.
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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ MAAT, Lisbon
29/06/2016 - 14/10/201629/06/2016 – 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.
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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
15/01/2016 - 04/04/2016This 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.
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The Wayward Line @ Château de Gruyères, Switzerland
11/07/2015 - 07/11/2015Symptomatically titled The Wayward Line and first presented at the Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, this exhibition brings together 5 different projects produced between 2008 and 2012. Covering topics such as space, place and home, fictional and real topographies reflect on the place of the photographic.
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The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ The Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
07/02/2015 - 02/05/2015This exhibition is the fourth 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.
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The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ Sala da Cidade, Coimbra Portugal
02/10/2014 - 05/01/2015This exhibition is co-produced by the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Coimbra; The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation & ESA. For the first time since its launch this exhibition takes on a multi-media format, where Martin’ work enters in dialogue with space hardware and personal space-flown objects from ESA astronauts.
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