CRISTINA MARTÍN LARA
Born in Málaga (Spain), 1972Lives & works in Berlin (Germany) Very active in: 90s, 2000s, Current decadeRepresentative galleries:Isabel Hurley
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Cristina Martín Lara is one of the most outstanding emerging Andalusian artists today with a major exhibition record, numerous publications and being present in both private and public collections. "Landpartie" is her brand-new series since her previous "Si yo supiera a qué se debe..." acclaimed series and we have scheduled it during the Festival Off of PHE08.
"Landpartie" is an experiment. Cristina puts to test intimate feelings and emotions that are induced by our environment. Therefore she questions, not the thinking Cartesian subject, but the "feeling" subject inscribed into hypermodernity: "I talk about loneliness, loss, disorientation, about what could be but cannot be".
The person is thus subjected to the Pavlovian experiment carelessly, reduced to our most animal essence, more conditioned and more stripped of humanity: speedy carousels, loops? Something that seems funny but is not, something felt but that is pure simulacrum, something said that is nothing but a landslide silence, something thought but being a non-sense banality.
Cristina gives us the pieces of a puzzle with no apparent fitting but that requires our interpretation and our active involvement. Only by doing that we will be able to find a factible path, a road to somewhere...
Shows
- VIVA Show at MOCA Seoul
Along with the MACBA Collection show La Sombra del Habla, MMCA Seoul exhibits every Saturday of September three selections from VIVA, International tour of Videoart and Collections works, along with curatorial program Restless (E)motion. - In the mood for today
What day is today? How to define Monday? What is a Thursday? What are Saturdays like? What meanings does each day evoke in the collective imagination? How is today defined? - Restless (E)Motion
Spanish artists reflecting on the emotional uneasiness of the human being