Art as a Word

The mechanism of perception that leads Matilde Marín to find, again and again, the word ART on her trips, start with a calligraphy poster, a quasi photography manual, in 1998 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This is nothing less than which holds “La vérité Changera l’ Art”. Gives beginning to a series still open, captured by her camera, presented in casual, random and arbitrary manner, confirming the widespread use in multiple contexts of the word ART, verified in her travels.

To that first one, that associated the truth as a driver of change in a system that is identified with a capital letter, followed many others who were visualized not necessarily within a cultural center, but on the street, in advertisements, as nominating a coffee, in the patent of the 40’s typical cars from Cuba, in the t-shirt of a girl in the middle of a performance or as a graffiti in an classic arch in Rome.

What causes Matilde Marín to deploy this series of photographic captures where the sense of the word art allows us to contextualize some meanings? Her own questions, concerns about the possibility of every trip that always involves the idea of comparison with other systems, what they have in common and what they single. This, along with the imprint of the search emerges as powerful and significant in its perception as a contemporary artist. It can be traced in her production the series of lighthouses, the one related to smoke, the ones on crisis and survival modes, common to multiple systems in many different countries together.

But that ability that Matilde runs with critical evidence, or what is the same: observe aesthetically a reality that is ‘out there’ in front, makes us witnesses of a common set of devices within the differences, something which returns to the concept by Beuys quoted, the look that transforms the action into a work of art, at once ephemeral as all these shots, but that clearly indicate an impulse to reflect where we all have a creative ability that transforms our actions into something done with art.