Isabel M. Martínez
Dock #1
Chromogenic print
76 cm x 76 cm
2001
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Isabel M. Martínez spent her formative years in Santiago de Chile. She has exhibited internationally in solo and curated
group shows in Chile, Canada, the UK, the USA, France, Brazil, Colombia and Spain.
My work deals with the aspects of experience where the real, the known, and the imagined blend. Perception is a recurring theme within my practice. This is paired with an ongoing interest in ideas concerning notions of time, space, simultaneity and duration. My visual interpretations are informed in part by science, philosophy and fiction. Process and experimentation with the qualities of analogue photography, and the film negative in particular, are at the forefront of much of my practice; this leads to ambiguous narratives and hybrid exercises. Creating juxtapositions that are disorienting or unexpected, my work engages with the uncertain amid the assumed and probes the boundary between abstraction and representation, fact and fiction.
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This work demonstrates Line as an element of design in that it is the main focus of the work. Lines break up the subject and present the viewer with veritable slices of time, collected and displayed as vertical lines.
It demonstrates Balance as a principle of design in that there is a clear sense of measurement in the work. This literal measured space is completely balanced from left to right and more figuratively from top to bottom.
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We chose this work because it illustrates distortion in time in relation to the lost moments we may or may not perceive. You experience life according to the artist, at 40 moments per second, and as we hurtle through life, there are an infinite amount of random firing moments of chance that we aren’t directly aware of - these moments falling in-between those 40 conscious ones. There is the possibility that you cannot fathom what has occurred while you weren’t looking, while your mind was blinking. How would you react? How would you change?
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