Josep-Maria Martín
La casa digestiva (La casa digestiva), 2010-2011. Installation with video. Variable dimensions.
Josep-María Martín´s work usually begins with research and a collaborative process with several people, generating negotiations that conclude in propositions and, in each project, a common action.
His art surpasses the aesthetic and commercial nature, intending to move from aesthetics to ethics. In his projects, art is created to change our lives.
ost of his works involve different disciplines and are generally developed during a long period of time.
For Of Bridges & Borders, the artist began a project entitled El viaje de Bamba (Bamba’ s journey), later carried into several creative processes, translated into different formats.
er months of research and interviews, he found Mouhamadou Bamba Diop, a Senegalese, author of the story shown. During the encounter, Bamba lived with 16 other fellow countrymen, all living illegally in the Lavapiés neighborhood in Madrid. The artist offered him the opportunity to reflect on his current situation and for him to tell his life in Senegal, his journey to Cayuco, the dreams they had, and what it’s like, to return to Kayar in order to create a better future for his city’s children.
Stating with Bamba’ s journey, in February 2010 he developed The digestive house for Lavapiés (La casa digestiva) for the Madrid Abierto 2010. In this work, the artist questions life in the small boat (patera), making an analogy between the digestive system and home as an organism digesting personal and collective memory.
The project gained strength and expanded. Josep-María Martín and Bamba traveled together to Senegal and taped videos, interviews and a movie. They gave conferences together for universities and were able to make a socio cultural project denouncing immigration problems from a simple encounter.
In December 2010, the project takes an exhibition format and it’s presented in the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, in Barcelona and, for this opportunity, in Fundación Proa.
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Josep-Maria Martín(1961, Ceuta, Spain). Lives in Barcelona; works in Barcelona Perpiñán and Geneva. Artist and art professor for the Geneva and Perpignan Art Schools. His works and projects are focused in creating new strategies of intervention in consolidates social structures. The artist questions and criticizes the reality he wants to work in. Often his work become complex projects involving several people and places. He does not work in a formal manner or commercially with galleries, for his works belong to other circuits. He has shown his work in several institutions and several important events in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, and participates in important artistic events such Insite_05, Tijuana/ San Diego; Exhigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Nigata, Japan; and Dislocaciones, Santiago de Chile. He developed several public art projects in Japan and Spain.
Links
http://www.josep-mariamartin.org/es/index.php
http://www.madridabierto.com/en/artistical-interventions/2009/josep-maria-martin.html
http://www.funciona.info/tag/mavi/
http://www.portaldearte.cl/agenda/instalacion/2010/josep_maria.html
http://acvic.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=186:taller-de-torolab-raul-cardenas-y-josep-maria-martin&catid=59:exposicions-actuals&Itemid=88