“A fotografia vê para lá do real”, Jornal de Negócios interviews Edgar Martins

24 October 2014

Jornal de Negócios (Portugal), edition 24th October 2014, interviews Martins’about his latest show The Rehearsal of Space and The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite’ at Sala da Cidade (Coimbra) in a double-page feature titled ‘A fotografia vê para lá do real’. The full article can be viewed and downloaded here.

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It kills Pain

Edgar Martins

This dypthic was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, a project developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal. It reflects on the gaps in understanding, information and representation and the deep rooted anxieties around ethics and aesthetics that inevitably arise when documentary photography and questions of visibility intersect.

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It kills Pain

From the series Siloquies and Solilquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes I Edition 1/1

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Aproximações

Edgar Martins

Produced over a period of 12 months with the Portuguese Airport Administration Authorities this book surveys the modern airport. Pictured as the elementary expression of abstract space, in Martins’ images sky and ground collide, overlap and blur.

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Aproximações

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The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite

Edgar Martins, João Seixas, John Gribbin, Sérgio Mah

In 2012, Edgar Martins was granted unparalleled access to The European Space Agency (ESA) and its private aerospace partners’ programs. Martins’ project reflects on the wider politics of space exploration, the ever-growing role of science and technology in our society and our relationship with the unknown, whilst opening up wider questions around epistemology, metaphysics and humanity’s conception of itself.

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The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite

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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Edgar Martins, Roger Luckhurst, Sérgio Mah, Timothy Secret

Produced in collaboration with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, between 2013 and 2017, this project is a reflexion on the tensions and contradictions inherent in the representation and imagination of death, in particular suicide, and the decisive but deeply paradoxical role that photography has played in its intelligibility and perception.

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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Shortlisted for the 2018 Recontres D'Arles Book Awards

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