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Edgar Martins /

Cake iced with grief

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins 2023 series I’m Still Here, and explores Freud’s early ideas about scopophilia (the pleasure of looking). Whilst Martins’ doesn’t fully subscribe to Freud’s views he does however agree that we must model a way of seeing that is capable of withholding some ‘secrets’.

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Lipograph Light Study #1

Edgar Martins’ experimental Lipograph Light Studies are created by exposing different lightwaves and light patterns onto photo sensitive paper. In this series Martins adopted Georges Perec’s lipogrammatical approach to deal with the difficult and complex topic of the death and disappearance of his good friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, during the 2011 Libyan war.

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Untitled #1, The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise + NFT

This artwork is part of an experimental series developed by Edgar Martins during lockdown, as a reflexion on how Photography  has become inextricably aligned to Technocapitalist doctrine. The works in this series challenge this notion and are produced, entirely, by making use of the by-products of the printing process and items that would normally be discarded.

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Untitled #2, The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise + NFT

This artwork is part of an experimental series developed by Edgar Martins during lockdown, as a reflexion on how Photography  has become inextricably aligned to Technocapitalist doctrine. The works in this series challenge this notion and are produced, entirely, by making use of the by-products of the printing process and items that would normally be discarded.

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Would You Shed Your Skin for Me?

This dypthic was produced in the context of the Edgar Martins’ award winning project Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, a project developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal, exploring the tension between concealment and revelation.

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It Kills Pain

This dypthic was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, a project developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal.

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Aluminium Honeycomb Assembly, M & C Laboratory, ESA-ESTEC

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, a project which resulted from a three year collaboration with the European Space Agency and which represents the most comprehensive survey ever assembled about a leading scientific and space exploration organization.

 

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Lifting bolt used to disassemble the generating sets, 1Kg, 40x220mm

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ The Time Machine. Shot between 2010 and 2011, The Time Machine is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. In recovering a past of exciting technological innovation and optimistic belief in the future, these photographs suggest that they are not just about the generation of power but also of dreams and technological utopias.

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