Marcos Martins “In Memoriam” – Parede-malecón

Abstract

Art is the MEDIUM through which the surrounding and constitutive questions of the subject within their ENVIRONMENT—their culture—can be elaborated. Through mediation, or even at the center, artistic processes are understood as a path, a trace, a line toward a vanishing point that returns to culture itself in order to reorganize the ENVIRONMENT and its sociabilities among subjects, spaces, and affections: the place where one lives and the community one belongs to; the identity that composes you, or the diversities that bring you closer.

We stand at the intersections of multiple ENVIRONMENTS: being a woman, a man, Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, urban, rural, and so many others. We produce the inequalities of ENVIRONMENTS between equidistant points at the extremes—rhizomatic paths. We are a web, always growing and overflowing through the ENVIRONMENT. Just as we produce empathy, attentive looking and listening to ourselves and to others, we produce alterity.