ARTIST STATEMENT

Eugenia Martínez was born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1976. She lives and works in Mexico City. Her work as a painter, for the last decade, consists moslty of mexican portraits from the colonial era to the 1960´s enhanced with metaphoric texts.

Through the images, she reflects the social cleavage between the public discourse of the different Mexican social groups and their true thoughts. Selected parts of the paintings and photographs are sorrounded repeatedly and obssesively by sentences, creating -what it seems to be- an impenetrable halo of prejudice.
The texts (consist of literal or distorted quotes from politicians and moral leaders) became more and more contradictory and confusing.

The discourse of a community without a common dream.

BIOGRAPHY

Eugenia Martinez
Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 1976
lives and works in Mexico City