Andrea

Martínez

I work mainly with photography, which interests me as a medium, but also as a research and study subject. Therefore, my practice focuses on working with the fundamentals of photography: understanding light as idea, as matter and material. Issues about photographic materiality (such as the passage from light to pigment, from the ephemeral to the physical medium, etc.) take shape and coexist with the exploration of the photographic medium itself, which has allowed me to displace light, color and assumptions about the image to an area of subtle mismatch between what we see and what was in front of the camera.

Many of the questions that trigger my creative process come from questioning the minimum elements necessary for an image to exist. From this, I am particularly interested in using a language close to abstraction and I find myself questioning issues of photographic representation through producing images that, although taken from immediate reality, somehow make the viewer think twice about what they are looking. In my production, after the moment of the photographic take, there is a second moment more analytical within the study in which I make use of resources close to a plastic exercise such as the fragmentation of images, different kinds of interventions, repetition, collage, artist books, etc.

My research wanders between traditional genres such as landscape and portraiture, therefore I am constantly addressing reflections on our relationship to space, territory and the gaze. The work seeks to expand the concept of landscape in photography by relocating the subject who looks at it as part of the whole and not only as who looks at it from the outside.

I find myself more and more interested in revaluing the photography/science binomial as an important historical tool in the construction of our collective imaginary but addressing it from an echocentric and echopoetic perspective, questioning the implications of the hierarchical vision historically constructed with photography, which sought to conquer the territory and its horizontality.

I am looking to relate the viewer to the image through different visual strategies that break with the traditional conventions of the landscape genre. I seek to create conceptual intersections between notions of said gender from different scientific disciplines (such as geography, geology, astronomy, cartography, among others) with different photographic principles such as time, light, scale, verticality, horizontality, distance, point of view, transparency, border, limit, emptiness, matter, etc, always intersected by cultural implications and conventions towards image, photography and art.

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Dolmen VIII, 2024
Heliogravure on copper plate, marble fragments, equilibrum
32 X 28 X 25 cm

Dolmen III, 2024
Silver gelatin prints on resin paper, marble fragments, steel base
21.5 X 28 X 3.8 cm

Dolmen IX, 2024
Silver gelatin prints on resin paper, marble fragments, steel base
36 X 28 X 3.8 cm

Dolmen VII, 2024
Heliogravure on copper plate, marble fragments, equilibrum
22 X 32 X 18 cm

Dolmen XI, 2024
Silver gelatin print on resin paper, marble fragments, steel base
24 X 18 X 4 cm
Dolmen I, 2024
Silver gelatin print on fiber paper, marble fragments, steel base
21 X 25.5 X 3.8 cm

Dolmen X, 2024
Silver gelatin prints on resin paper, marble fragments, steel base
18 X 36 X 3.8 cm