This is not a House @ The Wapping Project, Hydraulic Power Station, London
17/01/2012 - 04/03/2013This is the second exhibition in the worldwide tour of this project and the first in the UK. It catalyses and reunites fresh experiences of a new form of American architecture: the ruin. Martins creates a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that followed the 2008 economic crisis.
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The Time Machine @ MAAT, Lisbon
13/10/2011 - 11/12/2011This is the second exhibition and the largest, in the worldwide tour of this project. Developed with EDP Energy and several hydro-power stations across Portugal, it reflects on failure of the Modernist project and how its ideological narrative led to the desertification of the industrial landscape and the decimation of labour forces.
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The Time Machine @ The Wapping Project Bankside, London
21/09/2011 - 05/11/2011This is the inaugural exhibition in the worldwide tour of this project. Developed with EDP Energy and several hydro-power stations across Portugal, it reflects on failure of the Modernist project and how its ideological narrative led to the desertification of the industrial landscape and the decimation of labour forces.
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This is not a House @ The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
29/09/2011 - 24/12/2012This is the inaugural exhibition in the worldwide tour of this project. It catalyses and reunites fresh experiences of a new form of American architecture: the ruin. Martins creates a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that followed the 2008 economic crisis.
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Dwarf Exoplanets & Other Sophisms @ The 54th Venice Biennale, Macau Pavilion, Italy
01/06/2011 - 28/11/2011Produced especially for Macau’s participation at the 54th Venice Biennale, this exhibition presents the photographic image as paradoxical, dialectical and hybrid, as something that brings together a series of irresolvable contradictions and where truth and as a lie are mixed up to reveal the fragility of our visual powers.
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The Wayward Line @ Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
19/10/2010 - 18/12/2010Symptomatically titled The Wayward Line 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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When Light Casts no Shadow @ Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
30/11/2009 - 05/02/2010This exhibition reflects on the complexity of the negotiations between estranged lives and de-territorialized worlds. It depicts the modern airport as the elementary expression of abstract space. The space of the uprooted.
photosTopologies @ Museu do Oriente, Lisbon
01/10/2008 - 01/11/2008This exhibition presents us topographic works from four distinct bodies of wok produced between 2005 and 2007. Airports, beaches, urban spaces and forest fires reflect the world of appearances in all its uncertainties, its banality and strangeness, its evidence and counter-evidence, its truth and its fiction.
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The Accidental Theorist @ The Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York
07/09/2006 - 18/12/2006This exhibition bring together two series of works. The main room presents us works shot on the same set of beaches in Portugal over a period of two years. All that typifies the holiday beach experience is missing. The beach is rendered as little more than a proscenium awaiting some event.
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