Matilde Marín

Born in 1948 in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Lives and works in Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Matilde Marín’s work revolves around what she calls “the internal memory of man.” Her current production is focused on the role of the artist as a witness, recorded through photography and video stories about the world we inhabit, situations that relate to pure landscape as well as its natural or artificial alteration. The artist has exhibited widely both in Argentina and internationally. She participated in the 2015 XII Biennial La Habana, Cuba and the XX Biennial de Curitiba, Brazil and received the Biennial Award of Puerto Rico and Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador. Marín was also bestowed with the Jorge Romero Brest Award by the Argentina Association of Art Critics and the Platinum Konex Award. Her work can be found in the collections of Malba, Museum of Latin American Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA; and Contemporary Art Center Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

Adriana Almada has written of the work by Matilde Marín, on view at KB17: “To record images of fumes is to stop the course of history and make all bonfires one. In the same way that Bertolt Brecht extracted from newspapers maps and scenes of the Second World War and mounted them in his Arbeitsjournal (Labor Diary), or as Aby Warburg long before did with his Atlas Mnemosyne, inviting a re-reading of European civilization from a free association of images, Matilde Marín collected (2005-2011) hundreds of photographs of different ’fumes’ -with their respective legends- appearing in the press. To read them is to get an overview of our convulsive times…Smoke is usually the rubric of a catastrophe; the list is endless. The epigraphs change, but the smoke remains. Other and more recent fumes are shown on the move -also confirming the end of an era-, such as the spectacular implosion of Kodak Building 53 (July 18, 2015) -which manufactured the acetate base of photographic film in Kodak Park, Rochester, USA.”