Matilde Marín (Buenos Aires, 1948) is characterized by the meticulousness with which she adopts diverse techniques in the elaboration of her works, which include photography and video, as well as engraving and installation. Matilde Marín’s aesthetic ideas and projects always transcend the mere exercise of art, which, in any case, has long since reached a degree of skill and refinement in the elaboration of images. Her current production is focused on the role of the artist as a “witness”, recording stories about the world we inhabit, as well as situations related to the pure landscape and its natural or artificial alteration.
Artist with international trajectory, she studied studios in Zürich, Switzerland. He starts working around what he called “The internal memory of man”. The social register of the urban environment is also present in some of his series, such as “Contemporary Bricolage” produced between 2002 and 2005, a project presented at MALBA in Buenos Aires that shows the urban collection through photographic records made in Latin America. His work tries to show the absent of the present, giving testimony of a place.
Recent biennials, individual and collective projects: (2017) Arqueóloga de sí misma(anthological) Curator Adriana Almada, Espacio de Arte Fundación OSDE; A Witness to History, Curator Amin Gulgee, Karachi Biennale KB17 Pakistan; Solo Show Photo Lima, Curator Julian Mizrahi; Bienal Internacional SIART, Curator Joaquín, Sánchez La Paz, Bolivia. OVNI Festival d’art, Nice, France; Artists’ Books, Curator Rocio Santa Cruz, Arco, Madrid; (2016) Portas Abertas, Eugenio de Almeida Foundation, Évora, Portugal; Imaginaria Project, Photography Festival, Castello, Spain; Luz do Mundo, Curitiba International Biennial, Curator Teixeira Coelho, Brazil; (2014) A continuous line, themes on landscape, MNBA, Neuquén, Curator Laeticia Mello. (2010) Reality and Utopia, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico DF; Argentina’s Artistic Road to the Present’, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Visual Itineraries, curator Lisbethe Rebollo, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; (2009) De Natura – Zona Alterada, Sala Cronopios, Curator Mercedes Casanegra, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; (2008); Siete Ríos, MAC, Santiago de Chile. Bricolage Contemporáneo, Ciclo Vivir Nuestra Ciudad, Curator Rodrigo Alonso, Buenos Aires; (2007); Too Much Freedom, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; (2006) Iluminaciones, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Nomadic Work of Matilde Marín, School of Arts & Performing Arts, State University of New York; Contradicciones y Convivencias: Artists of the 80s and 90s in Latin America, Luís Ángel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia; (2005) Making Artists Books Today, Santa Barbara Museum, California; Never again, San José State University, The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, USA.
Matilde Marín’s work has been widely studied in theoretical and critical texts internationally.