Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 1985
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Throughout her creative process, Martinez investigates architectural spaces and urban surfaces. In her artistic production, she focuses on the viewer’s gaze towards empty and seemingly uninhabited spaces. In this way, the artist reveals invisible perspectives – such as the passage of time and light – through paintings, collages, assemblages and site-specific installations.
In the age of “time is money”, knowing to slow down is a kind of wisdom. The endless tasks feed into our daily anxiety, while excess information unrelentingly overflows across the many screens, extensions of our bionic minds and bodies. We’ve been hijacked by compulsive productivity. Exhausted, and guilty whenever we risk taking a break, we feel that wandering aimlessly through town – and seeing beauty in ordinary elements – is a luxury reserved for analogical poets. In this solo show that carries a poem in its title, Rio de Janeiro-born artist Carolina Martinez, who holds a BA in Architecture and studied painting, invites us to slow down through a silent pathway of subtleties turned into abstract shapes.
