Martina Miño
Bio
(Ecuador, 1990) is a visual artist and researcher currently based in Quito. Martina recently won the V Edition of the Brazil Prize in the Contemporary Art Center of Quito. She has exhibited her work in Finland, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Estonia, Mexico, and Ecuador. She has shown her work in spaces such as Proyecto N.A.S.A.L (Ecuador), The Institute of Endotic Research (Berlin); Pori Biennale IV (Finland), Supermarket Art Fair (Sweden), Arte Actual FLACSO (Ecuador) and at the Center for Contemporary Art in Quito.
Statement
Her work focuses on creating incarnations and immersions that use taste, smell and touch as essential tools of interpretation of various types of sensitive languages. Her pieces often involve the de-solidification of the work or the dissolution of the visible object and its internalization as a transforming device. She uses the poetics of digestion as a metaphor for the assimilation of concepts and her material research explores her poetic potential. Similarly to contemporary alchemy, she uses resin, iron and other materials to produce vessels, while employing experimental techniques of culinary science. Martina seeks to promote experiences of common sensoriality, which enhance opportunities for recognizing what is seen otherly through the shared condition of feeling. Beyond thinking art as an object, she is interested in using it as a social artifact where its role transforms from being a static device to being an evaporating moment of experience.
