Current Residents Martina Miño Pérez
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Martina Miño Pérez, Los Buceadores, installation view, Galeria Nasal, 2023, Photo by Ricardo Bohórquez
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Martina Miño Pérez, Plasma, installation view, Galeria Casa del Barrio, 2023, Photo by Ricardo Bohórquez
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Martina Miño Pérez, El Rostro de Marte, installation view, Galeria N24, 2023, Photo by Pepe Avilés
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Martina Miño Pérez, Nekyia, installation view, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, 2024, Photo by Pablo Jijón Valdivia
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Martina Miño Pérez at her exhibition AEON, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, 2024, Photo by Juliana Avilés
Martina Miño Perez builds sculptural pieces that focus on the transmutation of matter, its dissolution, and internalization as a spiritualizing device. Through the use of resin, metal, stone, wax, gelatin, and other materials, she produces bodily vessels while employing experimental techniques from culinary science. Her work promotes experiences of “common sensoriality” as opportunities to recognize what is seen otherly through the shared condition of feeling. Her practice addresses the dichotomy between matter and energy, body and spirit, and the intermediate points of fusion and evaporation.
My residency at HIAP will study the gesture of fermentation as an insight into life through a scope of circularity. From a collaborative and multidisciplinary standpoint, my practice enables sacred and collective moments of sensing by mirroring corporal behaviour with planetary, geological, and chemical processes through sculptural artifacts. During my residency, I will study the bodies of water and create a circulatory system of hybrid fermentors inspired by the Andean pre-Columbian tradition while approaching foraging and herbalism practices in Finland, with an understanding of the endless regeneration of nature beyond a narrative of irreversible destruction.