Professional development day with Edgar Martins @ University of South Wales

15 August 2022

Edgar Martins tutors MA Photography students @ University of South Wales. The event will take place Thursday, July 28, 10:00 AM and is open to USW students only. This will be preceded by an artist talk, focusing on his latest touring exhibition What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase.

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Grandma

Elena Helfrecht

Grandma (2018), by Elena Helfrecht, is from her ongoing series“Plexus”, a photographic study of still lives that emerge from inherited trauma and post-memory, following the death of the artist’s grandmother. Through this series the artist reconnects the fragmentary history of her female lineage and confronts a past spanning across four generations, examining ideas around post-memory, mental health, war, and history.

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Grandma

From the series Plexus I Edition 1/3 I Artistic Practice Support Print Sales Program #3

£2,000.00

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Make Men Great Again

Edgar Martins

This dypthic was produced in the context of the artist’s latest project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, a project which results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands, their families and a myriad of other individuals and community groups in the region.

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Make Men Great Again

From the series What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase I Edition 1/3

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The Man and the Tree

Luís Preto

The Man and the Tree, by Luís Preto, is from his ongoing series Pensar como uma Montanha (To think as a Mountain), which follows and documents the day to day life of Hervé Valette, a hermit, whose disavowal of modern institutions and the postmodernist lifestyle took him to seek refuge in the remote region of northern Portugal.

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The Man and the Tree

From the series To think as a Mountain I Edition 1/5 I Artistic Practice Support Print Sales Program #4

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Topologies

David Campany, Edgar Martins, John Beardsley

This seminal book is brings together 5 bodies of work, inspired by both early 18th century evocations of the sublime and contemporary pictorial traditions.
But for all its historical evocation, the photographs in this publication are fraught with anxieties about ruin.

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Topologies

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