ARTIST STATEMENT
Our art practice develops around the context of the value of the power in the economic sphere. Our goal is to investigate the mechanisms of the human unconscious, as an individual belonging to a social group within the limits of capitalism looking at the consequences of the current global financial system. The presentation of the work we do, shows a drift analysis of current social ecosystems where we work sometimes in an interpersonal position addressing the roll as an artist setting the value of the power in the artistic sphere.
We investigate various sound processes experimentation as a resource for the realization of sound installations, live performance, interventions and objects. Our field of work effects from composition to sound objection format to visualize the work.
The work is done with an anthropological character with the idea of
creating new environments for the emergence of the question of how the
individual takes their involvement in the actual social relations.
BIOGRAPHY
The art practice of Martinka Bobrikova (NO, SK, SE) & Oscar de Carmen (NO, ES, SE) develops around the context of the value of the power in the economic and social sphere. Their aim is to investigate the mechanisms of the human unconscious, as an individual belonging to a social group within the limits of capitalism looking at the consequences of the current global financial system.
They hold MFA from Nordic Sound Art programme and Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. From 2012 they have undertaken nomad life participating in several residencies such as Nida art Colony in Lithuania, Latent Spaces in Singapore or MeetFactory as returning resident where they are currently based for the second time.
Recent solo exhibitions includes: Do It YourSelf at Trailer Gallery in Umeå, SE; Superfluous Identity I, Klubovna Gallery in Brno and Superfluous Identity II in Galerie KIN Jidelna in Prague (2015); PDP/AV1 at ANX/ Atelier Nord in Oslo, NO (2014); In Process at TEA- Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, ES and Urban Hunter, Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK (2013).
They were part of group exhibition in venues and projects such as Prague Quadrennial, Prague, CZ (2015); Post-PopUp at CCA, Centre Contemporary Art Singapore, SG; Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO; Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE; City Gallery Bratislava, SK (2014); Karlin studio, Prague, CZ; Rake, Trondheim, NO (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK; KURANT, Trømso, NO (2012); Singuhr, Berlin, DE (2011);Center of Contemporary Art - Tbilisi, Tbilisi, GE; Röda Sten, Gothenburg, SE; City Museum, Gothenburg, SE (2010).