Sara Martín Terceño

turn return asks us to consider the material reality of the work carried out at the Centre for Artists in Residence, as a production centre more than an exhibition space, in order to understand artistic practice in a situated way, based on the conditions under which it is produced.

“Using the tools I have at my disposal as a mediator, I will give form to the encounters and interactions with the community of cultural workers who carry out their work in this space on a daily basis: the management team and other artists/residents and what I have come to call the community of spectators such as those outside who represent ‘the audience’ in this institution”. These encounters will reveal routines and humdrum production work but also reproduction and care work, which help us to understand contemporary artistic practice as a mechanism with which to build the world. Together with the poet Patricia Esteban, we will present an exercise in poetic writing that will allow us to generate, rather than conclusions, places of resistance and perhaps other questions.

The conceptual framework is inspired by Remedios Zafra's El Informe (The Report), in which the author not only analyses the causes and consequences of the malaise derived from the bureaucratisation of life and work, but also addresses the question of poetry, which is everything in “jobs like ours, forged in the use of words”.

Biography

Sara Martín Terceño develops mediation projects related to contemporary artistic practices in which she investigates tools and methodologies designed to produce gestures and question protocols that become political forms of being. She has recently become interested in the writing generated by the traces of these experiences of mediation as poetic forms.

Together with Leire San Martín, she produced the project Agujero se dice buco se parece a boca (Agujero Means Hole, Buco Sounds Like Boca) at the RAER (2022) and Una Arqueología de la mediation (An Archaeology of Mediation) for the exhibition project Tratados de Paz (Peace Treaties) directed by Pedro G. Romero (2016).

She is a member of the AMECUM working group on material conditions. For more than four years, she organised and supported a learning project with women that culminated in the publication Hasta llegar a ser GAS (Until We Become GAS).

Since 2003 she has worked in institutions such as MNCARS, CentroCentro, Intermediae and Tabacalera (Madrid), Instituto Cervantes and the Zamek Ujazdowski Art Centre (Warsaw), Towner Contemporary Art (Eastbourne, UK), DA2 (Salamanca), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) and Manifesta8.

Sara Martín Terceño is a recipient of the 4th call of the Art and Education Programme of the Matadero Madrid Centre for Artists in Residence.