Portuguese by birth, Edgar Martins grew up in Macau (China), where he published his first novel entitled 'Mãe, deixa-me fazer o pino'. In 1996 he moved to the UK, where he later completed an MA in...
Produced in unfinished residential and commercial developments in the US and Europe, using debris found on site, and working against the grain of still-life photography, these images deploy playful metaphors to suggest a place uncertain of its future.
In this work there’s no real clinch between title and images. There’s just a resonance, a reverberation.
In these images time and space have become an incipient forum of disruptive experiences and expression.
Rather than eliciting a paradoxical relationship between two worlds, the strength of this work arises from the silent dialogue established between a phenomenon of human drama and romantic myth.