Sculpture cut-out photographs printed on forex, metal structure 180 x 55 x 10 cm installation view at FoMu - Fotomuseum Antwerp

Sculpture

photographs printed on forex, metal

180 x 55  x 3 cm

The metal structure catches some elements typical of the street, but one is missing...

In this work, I imagined a tool-kit for the modern citizen, cityscape of the loneliness

Lost and found

Sculpture

photograph printed on forex, wooden structure

200  x 50  x 140 cm

A site-specific installation exhibited at 'Toneelhuis' in Antwerp (BE) during the event I HATE MONDAYS promoted by KAVKA. It is a cut-out of a photograph I took in Barcelona of a couple laying in the sun. Later printed on forex 5mm in a human-size scale and staged in the theatre, creating a surreal scenario.

mixed media (photograph printed on textile, wires, concrete), ambient size. 

A research about the equilibrium between two different elements: the face of the woman standing in the middle of the space and the strength of the wires connected from the ceiling to the ground. Thanks to the transparency of the textile, it's possible to walk around and see the picture even from its back.

Billboard, photograph printed on Airtex, 300 cm x 500 cm.

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Designed for the Kunstenfestival PLAN B - a Contemporary Art Festival taking place in Bekegem, Belgium in September 2018 - the billboard investigates the concept of memory by showing pieces of posters left and collected around the city.

The concept of causality and randomness in the method - of choice and collection - becomes the metaphor of time itself: our brain storages specific memories rather than others, and this process is something that we cannot control.

Later, this ‘street archive’ is scanned in order to keep a neutral point of view without adding a personal filter. The fragments of these posters are displayed by guessing the original size and imagining the missing parts, like an hypothetical puzzle that we cannot finish.

Again the method of re-displaying the fragments seeks to reflect the neurological process: by deliberately deciding how to arrange the various pieces, the work underlines how often it happens to our mind to combine memories and change the original story forever.

The context of this installation is the countryside, space where - compared to the cityscape - the time goes slower and the lost memory of the city creates a visual contradiction towards the context. The support of the fragments is a tape full of dust: the element that better expresses - with its physicality - the presence of time.

Sculpture (photographs printed on dibond, concrete base), 350 x 110 x 5 cm. Edition of 1.

 

A site-specific sculpture designed for the Middelheim Museum, an open-air sculpture park in Antwerp, approaches the theme of the human figure omnipresent in the collection of the museum. Rethinking the ancient sculptures that lost their body parts in time, the headless statue gives a contemporary interpretation to the classics.

Sculpture

photograph printed on forex

180 cm x 55 cm x 3 cm

A human-size sculpture represents a man standing alone in an angle. His body is ideally erased by the transparency of Photoshop. By showing this pattern, Marta shows a common action of her artistic practice.

Installation

Mixed media (photograph printed on textile, wires, concrete),

ambient size

The work borns as a research about the equilibrium between two different elements: the face of the woman standing in the middle of the space and the strength of the wires connected from the ceiling to the ground. Thanks to the transparency of the textile, it's possible to walk around and see the picture even from its back.

Sculpture (photograph printed on foamboard, wood base), 180 cm x 110 cm x 30 cm. Edition of 1.

A representation of a man is laying in the gallery creating a hyperreal situation. The aspect of the man changes depending on the point of view, questioning whether the perspective is right or wrong.

Sculptures (photographs printed on dibond, wood base, ruler), installation view. Edition of 3.

The human body is investigated in order to create an humorous overview of the contemporary movements and postures. The relationship with the technology has created new gestures that are already recognised in the public vision. Furthermore, the project study the shift in the perception of the space due to the technological devices which make a distinction between the virtual distance and the physical one. The sculpture presented for the BredaPhoto leads to rethink, and ideally measure, the difference between these two different spaces - how close we can be while being far from each other - and leaves the question open.