Marta Fernández Calvo

Retrospective addresses the environmental situation by reflecting on the concept of sustainability. The starting point is a revision of the artist’s own practice on the subject of food and is intended as a tool – emotional and sensitive – for reflection and the creation of an archive that collects together and makes possible the reformulation and activation of the material (emotional) and the networks of affection generated in work processes carried out in dialogue with communities of women and their territories over the last five years. The time, space and resources offered by this residency will be devoted to the creation of this archive and its presentation to the public in the form of a performance art piece in which the research material will be activated through a work focused primarily on text and voice. Understanding to what extent the body itself - and the voice itself - should and can be expanded in order to contain all the voices of this journey, is one of the most important objectives of this project.

BIO

As a is a visual artist and a researcher, Marta Fernández Calvo (Logroño, 1979) is particularly interested in the relationship between the visual arts and caring. Winner of the Artes Riojanas Prize in 2019, her work has been included in exhibitions such as No Soul for Sale, in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern (London), Utopia Station, at the 53rd Venice Biennale, and To Want to Look Like Night (Querer parecer noche), at the Ca2M (Madrid). In 2019, she was a resident at the Delfina Foundation (London) as a participant in the Politics of Food programme. She is currently preparing collaborations with Artium (Vitoria), the Botín Foundation (Santander) and Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna). She lives in Madrid.

One of the recipients of the 2024 Quarterly Residencies for Projects on the Environment for visual artists at Matadero Madrid’s Centre for Artists in Residence.