
Edgar Martins @ A Bigger Book Fair, Peckham 24
Edgar Martins joins The Moth House at A Bigger Book Fair, Peckham 24, from 17-19.05.2024, where he will be signing copies of his new book “Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb”.
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Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb @ Somerset House, London
Anton’s Hand is Made go Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gungey-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb opens at Somerset House, London on 19 April 2024. This exhibition runs until 6 May and is integrated in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024.
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MICROPOLÍTICAS: Works from the Portuguese State’s Art Collection (Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado) @ Center for Archeology and Arts, Beja (Portugal)
this exhibition presents a combination of artistic practices that are based on the construction of community spheres, revealing how artists take positions and address pressing issues of their time. Bringing together more than 30 works, the exhibition continues CACE’s strategy of disseminating its collection on a national stage and presents a wide range of recent acquisitions, including the works of Edgar Martins.
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Civilisation: The Way we live now @ Jut Art Museum,Taipei
Civilization: The Way we Live now, an exhibition curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, The Time Machine and 00:00.00 is exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery, London. This exhibition will run from 01 June until 17 September 2023.
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Edgar Martins @ The Future Now Symposium, Yorkshire Museum
Edgar Martins Martins participates in the The Future Now Symposium, which brings together award-winning artists who engage with themes from our changing world, such as: the ethics of representation, curation, AI and new technologies, diaspora and threats posed by the climate emergency.
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‘Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb.’ is now available to pre-order
Edgar Martins’ forthcoming book is a research-based documentary project, a novel, a journal, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It includes original photographs, archival photography and images researched from dark web forums, an album of probing soundscapes exploring the everyday experiences of a war correspondent as well as a book of drawings of myriad war scenes (collector’s edition).This book will be launched in April 2024 and is now available to pre-order.
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The 11th Edition of Photo Israel, International Photography Festival @ Enav Cultural Center and Gan Ha’ir, Tel Aviv
Photo Israel is the biggest photography event in Israel and the only one in the world that provides a joint platform for social outreach activities and for fascinating works by photographers and artists from across the globe. Following recent events in Israel and Gaza, the new edition of the festival has been postponed from 8 – 27 November 2023 to 27 March – 7 April 2024. The 11th edition of the festival will feature works from Edgar Martins’ ‘Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle of Bone.
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Our War at Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin
Works from the series Our War, which won Edgar Martins the Sony World Photographer of the Year 2023 accolade , are exhibited at Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin (Germany) as part of the SONY World Photography Awards touring exhibition. The exhibition will run from 17 November – 28 January 2024.
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Edgar Martins’ work is featured in the publication Watching, Waiting: The Photographic Representation of Empty Places, by Sandra Križić Roban & Ana Šverko, published by Leuven University Press
Watching, Waiting presents a collection of essays, both photographic and written, that brings emptiness into interdisciplinary focus as an object of study that extends beyond the present. The contributors approach the specific interrelationships of photography and place through emptiness by considering historical and contemporary material in equal measure.
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Edgar Martins wins Film photographer of the Year in the International Photography Awards 2023
Our War, a selection of images from Edgar Martins’ new project titled Anton’s hand is made of guilt, no muscle or bone. He has two clinically depressed fingers and an angry thumb received the highest accolade at the International Photography Awards 2023, in the Film/Analogue Portrait category.
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