Martine (b. 1989, Trondheim, Norway) lives and works in Malmö, Sweden where she holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2018). In 2017 she did an exchange at Akademie der Bildende Künste Vienna (with prof. Heimo Zobernig). In 2019 she assisted artist Mary Kelly in Los Angeles with the support of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. In 2021 she will attend the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
Film still from GRAIN UPON GRAIN, 2020.
An idea of stillness.
I'm interested in the idea of the image as a break in the continuum of time, of language and causality. As something that bears an idea of stillness, elevated above the forces of time and decay.
I'm interested in the idea of the image as a break in the continuum of time, of language and causality. As something that bears an idea of stillness, elevated above the forces of time and decay.
Interiors (II), 2020
Spatial photograms on polyester textile. Mounted on Dibond.
142 × 153,5 cm (Diptych)
The flash and the negative imprint.
Walter Benjamin writes about the dialectical image as a sort of negative imprint in the echoes of memory that in moments of urgency flashes by to depict what is becoming obsolete in the present. This tension between annihilation and appearance, between anticipation and anxiety, is important in my work.
Walter Benjamin writes about the dialectical image as a sort of negative imprint in the echoes of memory that in moments of urgency flashes by to depict what is becoming obsolete in the present. This tension between annihilation and appearance, between anticipation and anxiety, is important in my work.
Detail of Interiors (II), 2020
A perpetual present.
I'm concerned with the idea of digital amnesia, and a future that is so automated and predictable that the present becomes a perpetual Now devoid of movement, like an image.
I'm concerned with the idea of digital amnesia, and a future that is so automated and predictable that the present becomes a perpetual Now devoid of movement, like an image.
GRAIN UPON GRAIN, 2020. 16 mm film, 5' 30" loop.
Interiors (V), 2020
Spatial photogram on polyester textile . Mounted on Dibond
143 × 79 cm
Martine Flor's artistic references span from early avant-garde photography, Michael Snow and structural film, artists such as Hanne Darboven and Agnes Martin, as well as the more recent practices of Nora Schultz and Kitty Kraus.
Detail of Interiors (V), 2020
INTERIORS (II), (III) and (V) Installed at OBRA
Martine works experimentally with sculpture, analogue photography, text and film.
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Interiors (III), 2020
Spatial photogram on polyester textile . Mounted on Dibond
143 × 88 cm
Detail of Interiors (III), 2020
Detail of Letters to Him Who Hides Wastelands Within
MARTINE FLOR: The Still
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