Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes @ Rencontres D’Arles 2017
28 April 2017This video was commissioned for and first presented at the Rencontres D’Arles 2017. Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes began to take shape during the course of research carried out at the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal and proposes to scrutinise the tensions and contradictions inherent in the representation and imagination of death.
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8 February 2016Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes opens at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Produced in collaboration with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, this project proposes to scrutinize, expose and hold in tension many of the contradictions and problems inherent in the conceptualisation, definition and depiction of death.
viewThe Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ Hamburg Photography Triennial & Encontros da Imagem Braga
15 May 2015This video was produced in collaboration with Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal) for the Hamburg Photography Triennial (Triennale der Photographie Hamburg) 2015 & the 25th edition of Encontros da Imagem. The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite (2014) is the the result of a historic, two-year collaboration between Edgar Martins and the European Space Agency.
viewThe Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ Sala da Cidade, Coimbra, Portugal
23 November 2014This video is an esec TV production, first aired on RTP Portugal in November 2014 about Edgar Martins’ exhibition The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ at Sala da Cidade (Coimbra, Portugal). For the first time in the worldwide tour of this work, the exhibition includes a mixed media layout, with photographs and other artworks displayed alongside original ESA technological hardware as well as personal, space-flown possessions of ESA astronauts.
viewEntre Imagens documentary, Episode 2
22 March 2014Entre Imagens is a documentary series produced for the Portuguese TV channel RTP 2. Episode 2 is dedicated exclusively to Edgar Martins’ practice. The artist is filmed during the production of new work, thus providing an insight into his methodology. Entre Images is an initiative by Pedro Macedo & Sérgio Mah and it consists of a documentary series about 13 renowned Portuguese visual artists who work with Photography.
viewThe Time Machine @ Ffotogallery, Penarth (Wales)
16 July 2013This video was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ exhibition, The Time Machine @ Ffotogallery, during the Diffusion Festival 2013. Between 2010 and 2011 Edgar Martins gained exclusive access to 20 power plants located across Portugal. The Time Machine speaks not just about the generation of power but also of dreams and technological utopias.
viewThe Time Machine @ Centro de Arte Moderna Graça Morais, Bragança (Portugal)
14 July 2012This video was first aired in RTP Artes about Edgar Martins’ exhibition, The Time Machine @ Centro de Arte Moderna Graça Morais. Between 2010 and 2011 Edgar Martins gained exclusive access to 20 power plants located across Portugal. Many were built between the 1950s and 1970s, a time of hopeful prospects for rapid economic growth and social change.
viewThis is not a House @ The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK)
20 September 2011This video documents Edgar Martins’ This is not a House exhibition @ The New Art Gallery, Walsall. Originally instigated by a commission from The New York Times Magazine this projects reflects on the collapse of the US housing market. Martins’ work also promps a re-evaluation of our understanding of photography and its fragile and difficult relationship with the “real” and a further exploration of the impact of digital media in journalism.
viewHaunted House @ The Gopher Hole, London
9 December 2010About a Minute is the inaugural exhibition at The Gopher Hole, founded by aberrant architect Beatrice Galilee. For their first show, The Gopher Hole invited conceptual artists, architects, designers, poets and writers to respond to a premise – the idea that today, a minute is all we seem to have. Haunted House is a 59s film by Edgar Martins, architect Pedro Gadanho Edgar Martins and sound artist Rui Gato.
viewReluctant Monoliths @ Estuaire, The Nantes Art Biennale
7 September 2009Conceived and developed in France, on the occasion of Estuaire 2009, this documentary is produced by Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes and follows Edgar Martins during the production of his critically acclaimed body of work Reluctant Monoliths. These images examine the radical transformation of the Loire River Estuary and its traditional industries.
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