Marta Santos

RETRIEVE:
The starting point is always in the retrieved objects, in the truth and humor of familiar objects that I reverse (through welding or sewing).
Retrieving trivial or manufactured materials (vintage leather, toys, mannequins, textiles, plastic objects)that I arrange in the volumes I create in order to achieve a poetic ensemble rooted in my own history and that of others.

REPARE:
Reinvest the production systems traditionally associated with women.
Establish the link with the feminine and household creative tradition that surrounded me during my childhood. Replace the technical means and approach (sewing basket, sewing machine, crochet) in the process to create volumes that occupy the space.

REVERSE/SHIFT:
Associate and intuitively assemble materials in an evolving process of consecutive transformations.
To shift and suggest critical and playful contradictions in which the disturbing strangeness can show up.
That which is perceived as familiar, becomes disturbing.

WE ARE ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Born in Madrid, Spain. At the end of my High School education, I was oriented towards Arts or Psychology and I chose the latter…This is the starting point of my path as an outsider.
At the end of my master in Psychology I join the world of multinational companies, at the HR department management. This job implies travelling around the world and often changing residence (Madrid, Paris, New York).

CREATING THE PLACE
I practice regularly design and painting. While attending training programs at Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris, I find the opportunity of working on volume. I start attending the technical workshops with Paul Flury and I continue during 5 years.
Iron welding, wood carving and bronze foundry.
I retrieve and arrange objets during and on arrival from my trips around the world, I always carry a thread bobbin in my luggage. I decide to move and share my residence and working space in an Art workshop.

TAKING THE TIME:
After 5 years attending the sculpture workshops with broad technical learnings, in 2001 I decide to leave the world of international multinational companies. Being an independent consultant I can dedicate time to create sculptures and installations.
In 2013 I move my home r...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 – À Force d’essuyer – Espace GT, Marseille
2021 - Contraintes - Galerie du Tableau, Marseille
2019 - A flor de piel - La cité Radieuse Le Corbusier, Marseille
2018 - A flor de piel - Galerie Invisible, Marseille2017-Chateau de Bugarach- Artistes a Suivre 2017 édition
2016- «Sous toutes les coutures», Pôle culturel des Comtes de Provence, Brignoles. France
2014- «Atando cabos», Galerie POC, Marseille. France
2013- Auditorio Municipal de Boadilla del Monte. Spain
2013- «Atando Cabos», Invisible Galerie, Marseille. France
2010- «Vuelta a casa», Instituto Cervantes, Toulouse. France
2008- Galerie des Carmes, Toulouse. France


COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
2023 - Universo Donna - Pinacothèque de Cassano Murge (Bari), Italy
2022 - Mediterraneum - Musée archéologique national d'Altamura, Italy
2022 - Mediterraneum - Galerie Ferdan Yousufi (Istanbul), Turkey
2022 - Mediterraneum - Musée Civique de Manduria (Taranto) , Italy
2022 - Mediterraneum - Château de Scilla (Reggio Calabria), Italy
2022 - Mediterraneum. Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France
2022 – Métamorphosis – Boisakré Productions, Pertuis, France
2022 – Folie et Extravagances – Galerie Invisible, Marseille, France
2022 - Passages- Collectif Horizons- Église de...