Aproximações

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Produced over a period of 12 months with the Portuguese Airport Administration Authorities, Aproximações (Approaches) is a survey of the modern airport.

Immured in temporality and suffering from a sense of historical discontinuity, the airport is the elementary expression of abstract space. It renders everyone weightless. It is the space of the uprooted and, as if to confirm the term terrain vague, in Martins’ images sky and ground collide, overlap and blur.

The cloudy ambiguity of these images pulls us into a deep absence, a sliding, fleeting and powerful somewhere, where everything is indeterminate and difficult to decode, with only the lights and airport hieroglyphics to orientate us.  The juxtaposition of sign and shape echoes the overlapping of time and space, disturbing language and meaning itself.


Date: December 2006
ISBN: 972-99860-2-9
Dimensions: 280mmx310mm
Pages: 119
Edition: 2000 copies
Hardcover with screen printed dust jacket
English & Portuguese

About the Artist
Edgar Martins is visual artist woking across different media. His work is represented in several high-profile collections, such as those of the V&A, RIBA, the Dallas Museum of Art; MAST , MUDAS, Modern Art Centre Lisbon, MAAT, Fondation Carmignac, amongst others. He has published over 16 books which were met with critical acclaim and exhibited internationally. He was selected to represent Macau (China) at the 54th Venice Biennale.