Victoria Martínez (b. Mexico City) is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her work involves storytelling of political realities and fictional possibilities through abstraction and poetry. Her practice is influenced by counter-colonial ways of seeing and a non-disciplinary approach to artistic mediums, switching between video, sound and paper within live situations. She has a background in philosophy and is currently part of Lensbased New Media Class at UdK Berlin.
Featured Transmission(s):
- Aired on April 14th 20:00 CEST
- The Ghosts of Salomé
- Genre: Sound Poetry / Spoken Word
- Duration: 15 min
- Departing from the myth of Salomé and her countless depictions in art history iconography, she sets an example of a female myth that has been reimagined by male figures over and over again, always the same and always different. But what was her voice actually sounding like?
