Antarctica Silence (Polar South) : [Video portraits, photographs and drawn artefacts from an artist's residency in Antarctica]

Abstract

Marty has been invited by the Cultural Projects for National Antarctic Affairs Argentine Chancellery to make and record a giant, complex, non-toxic print image in the snow and ice, all based on a photographic memory. The project, which is inspired by Marty’s recent video art work Upside down world, proposes to locate the creative process in a place of flux and movement as a visual memory translated into marks in space and time. In the same way as memory is fleeting, the work aims by its construct to be a metaphor in time and space. Artists residency February/March 2011 on Marambio and Esperanza Antarctica bases. Series of Exhibitions: Sur Polar II - Sur Polar Sur III - SUR POAR 3 De Antartida a Sevilla, Espana Sala de Los Continentes patio de Las Bandera 16, Seville, Espana 5th December 2011 - 8th January 2012, Centro Hispano Americano de Cultura, Havana, Cuba/