To soar free and high, to not be bound on where I stand by the earth’s gentle pull. is a film still from The Revolutions That Did (Not) Happen (2021). Set in 2085, the film suggests a world where social and political structures have collapsed and failed, dealing with topics of social media culture, self-actualization and individuality. By fantasizing about the future the artist exposes the shortcomings of the present.
Silvia Martes (b.1985 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam, with a practice focused on film and video-art. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam from 2019 to 2021. In 2021 she was shortlisted for Prix de Rome and in the same year was the winner of the Theodora Niemeijer Prize. The artist most recently had solo exhibitions at Museum De Pont in Tilburg and the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. Martes has completed artist-residencies in Ukiha & Tokyo (JAP), Aruba, Oldenburg (DE) and London (GB). In 2023, her first retrospective solo exhibition took place at the Edith Russ House for Media Art in Oldenburg. She has also participated in exhibitions at Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (2022), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2021) and EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (2020), among others.
Title: To soar free and high, to not be bound on where I stand by the earth’s gentle pull, 2024
Artist: Silvia Martes
From: Leopold Hoesch museum
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artist website: https://www.silviamartes.com/