Andrea Martínez

Lateral presents Las líneas que se desvanecen bajo el sol, a selection of work by Andrea Martínez that leads the photographic medium to a tension between what is seen and what is out of bounds.

Curatorship: María Paz Amaro

Based on her own silhouette and the scales that it allows her, Martínez traces a vital search in the history of humanity: the geographical location of space through measurement systems. The differentiating element is her own body, putting herself as a surveying tool reactivating what we contemplate in her images: a fictitious axis through the fold, the hand and, behind it, the cadence of the body whole.

The lines that fade under the sun is an invitation to challenge the architectural order of the world from the extension of the lines projected by the images to realize that nothing is linear. Covering the unattainable is the challenge that she proposes to us, although in the end, nobody knows where she stands.

Andrea Martínez (Brazil, 1982)

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Artist, photographer and teacher. Her work focuses on studying photography as a phenomenon and as a medium. She seeks to understand light as an idea, matter and material, in order to displace it, along with color and assumptions about the image, to a zone of subtle mismatch between what we see and what was in front of the camera. She has a degree in Arts from the ENPEG "La Esmeralda". Her work has been exhibited in shows in Mexico and abroad in spaces such as the Houston Center for Photography (Houston TX), the Museo Experimental El Eco (CDMX), among others. She was a fellow of the FONCA Young Creators program on two occasions. She has carried out various artistic residencies, including Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway) and The Banff Center (Canada). She has taught classes at public and private institutions such as Universidad CENTRO, the CEACO program at La Curtiduría, Centro de la Imagen, and ESCINE. She is currently a member of the National System of Creators. She lives and works in Mexico City.

— Lateral

Image: Andrea Martínez, Magnetic Meridian (Observatory), 2022