Lianet Martínez

(Cuba, 1993)

On her artwork

Lianet Martínez's works embody forms of rupture and transformation. Different means of expression, her body itself, are used to break down limits through aesthetics. In her creative beginnings, everyday objects were recreated in steel, cast iron and other materials. In places of social dynamism such as the University of the Arts where she studied, bus stops, or on Havana's Malecón, her colossal sculptures confronted the spectator with a new look, new readings and new political uses.

Emigration, time, death have been subjects matters that the artists has explored throughout her practice, using diverse media such as painting, installation, where she exploits the resonant qualities of the materials to the maximum. Photography can become a means of staging various questions related to her identity as a crossroads of multiple historical and culturally constructed subjections. In relation to which her art is a kind of exorcism. Here she is the site of generic and collective interpellations, her corporeality and intimate territory is the starting point for demands that she places in the public space to interrupt the mediations of the social and to renew metaphysical and sensitive dimensions.

Trajectory (summary)

Studies

2019 Degree in Visual Arts at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). Havana, Cuba. Award for most creative graduate.

2012 Graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts ‘San Alejandro’, Specialization in Painting. Havana, Cuba.

Solo exhibitions

2021/2022 ‘I walk dreaming’. 14th Havana Biennial. La Nave Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2019 ‘Alchemy’. Two-person exhibition, Nuno Sacramento Art Gallery, Ílhavo, Portugal.

2014 ‘20 years is something’. Military Academy Colonel ‘Arístides Estévez’. Havana, Cuba.

2013 ‘Inquietudes del cuerpo’. Two-person exhibition, Teodoro Ramos Blanco Gallery, Havana, Cuba.

Group exhibitions

2022 ‘Meteorite-synapsis’. Project ‘Behind the Wall’. 14th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.

2022 ‘Imaginarios visuales femeninos en tiempos de pandemia’ (Female visual imaginaries in times of pandemic). Revolution and Culture Gallery, Havana, Cuba.

2022 ‘Female Visual Imaginaries’. Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana, Cuba.

2021 ‘Con luz propia’ 10th Cubaneando International Festival, Montreal, Canada.