Marta is one of our newest writers and we’re very excited to introduce her and some of her amazing work!
Artist Statement:
My multidisciplinary artworks stem from research on various themes within a social context focused on community and the surroundings, culture, political and social structures, that feed an exploration of painting defined as somewhat between fantastical realism and materiality.
Animalesque creature like figures crawl around the surface, play with shadows and submerge from haunted forests, cursed with a melancholic feeling and uncertainty on the future, weaving a documentation of the anthropological society. The combination of heavy materiality with symbolic intuition suggest an escapism from reality, of abstract narratives to subvert and cope with social hierarchies, inequalities, abuse of power and normalised societal
standards.
Deconstruction and cycles is something I’m interest in, to take energy or anger and filter it into the material. The abstract but emotional narratives lie in a mental space where we feel things so intensely our nervous system might not let us be ready to talk about them, giving us a last chance to impulsively express it
intimately with the surface.
“It’s not so much about an idea, it’s about an action.”, Phyllida Barlow
Film photography, poetry, metalwork and ceramics merge with the figurative expressionist painting practice, opening up various artistic possibilities and acting as an ode to creativity. The human interaction with the
surface, and the “building” process, something unfinished, in a transitory state, is deeply marked by whoever is creating that new path.
Poems
How to sugar coat cupcake / things
- Remove the sparkly sugar icing;
- The cake has rotten;
- Pick up the bastard;
- Tell your mom you got everything under control;
- Make another excuse/layer;
- Hide all the flaws;
- Reassure your mom once more that you got everything under control;
- Shove it in the freezer;
- Never mention what happened to anyone;
- Wait a bit longer;
- Illude others;
- Feed the bullshit to yourself.
Penglish
Try to think of how everything you never said would sound if it was English: Burst out laughing –
Nah, hun, that’s not a word.
Second try
Try think of real word as close to the made up new word as possible, Say it with confidence,
Do not blink,
Repeat it somehow that the r’s run smoothly through
the tong- Nah:
Burst out laughing.
Third try
No choice but to succeed
In communicating non-existing word: A handbook:
First:
Gesture,
Wave your arms around so energetically
some object will grow from the movement and fly about the room, Everyone will get it.
Second:
Silent scream,
Lip synch while swearing because no one actually cares about your problems or the sounds you can’t make come out.
Third (and last?):
No this is not literally about language barriers.
Turn mute,
Give up.
Just accept you don’t know how to say that neither language.
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