EYE BUY ART that reconstructs time

1 CommentPosted November 2, 2011 by Emily McInnes

Isabel M. Martínez, The Weekend #6, 2009 from the series The Weekend


Isabel M. Martínez, The Weekend #9, 2009 from the series The Weekend

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Imagine if we could manipulate time, removing the stuff we didn’t want so we were only left with the good bits? In these images by Chilean born artist Isabel M. Martínez, two events have been stitched together into one single incident. Photographed only on Saturdays and Sundays, Isabel has removed the days of the week that are less appealing to her, creating an assemblage of time that folds into itself.

Using in-camera masks, Isabel grafts her subjects together combing two exposures without fully fusing them onto one another. The photographs appear to shift and change depending on the distance and angle they are viewed from – creating two, perhaps three images within a single frame – and thus challenging our expectations about the limits of still photography.

Isabel M. Martínez has exhibited in Chile, England, the United States, and Canada. Her work has been selected twice for Magenta’s international Flash Forward Competition, Framework Foundation’s Toronto Timeraiser, and was included as a Feature Exhibition in CONTACT Photography Festival 2011, FotoAmerica and Bienal de Fotografia (Chile). Her work has been written about in various international publications including Centro Virtual de la Fotografía Chilena, Bank on Art, Ojo Zurdo, Chilenizacion de la Fotografía, and Wegway Magazine.

To read more about the amazingly spellbinding Isabel M. Martínez follow this link!


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Happy November spliced into the golden rays of summer!

Emily McInnes
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The EYE BUY ART Team!

One Response to “EYE BUY ART that reconstructs time”

  1. Glenn McInnes says:

    When you’re acquiring young work, it seems to me you can’t judge it by the art alone. You have to judge it by the character of the person making it, and I like Isabel Martínez’ own strong path so far.

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