Marta Soul. The Eagle. Four glances
Marta Soul's gaze on El Águila
Chance is always present in our daily life. The set of images that I present in this calendar consists of different encounters and atypical situations experienced by the same person throughout a day. A young woman walks through the spaces of El Águila meeting different men who adopt somewhat unique behaviors.
The interaction between these couples gives rise to a set of peculiar situations in which it is intended to play with chance, probability and the unexpected. The images evoke those accidental episodes that shape our lives with little control over them. They can be very important at times, but generally they will be less momentous. For this reason, I wanted to present the random component of everyday life, removing the drama from it. According to Henri Bergson, it is necessary to move away from the emotional in order to laugh, even to make fun of tragedy *. Beyond the rational and logical thinking, the images invite surprise, showing a series of possible scenes, albeit with surreal nuances.
*Essay on the significance of the comicHenri Bergson
Martha Soul
Photographs: Marta Soul
Collaborators: Javi Alcalá, Gema Amador, Santi Buil, Carles Crapule, Maribel Criado, Fernando del Cubo, Demian, Javier Desidias, Patricia Escudero, Vicenta González Jiménez, Jorquera, Miguel Pardo, Santi Pardo, Peter, Paloma Pop, Igor Ródenas, Javi Troyan, Bernardo Vazquez.
Martha Soul
Marta Soul focuses her artistic work on the interaction between cultural aspects such as the aesthetics of appearance, emotions (and their relationship with values) and behavior (interaction patterns). Photography allows you to build images by asking questions about current stereotypes or problems such as immigration, consumerism or romantic love. His photographs usually include characters portrayed on stage with a peculiar social narrative. Play with your appearance (for example, the aesthetics of a successful life) to reflect other issues such as the expression of unsatisfied desires.
Marta was a founding member of NOPHOTO in 2005, a collective with thirteen other photographers, based in Madrid and later in Wuhan (China). The collective has organized and curated a good number of exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
He has exhibited individually in numerous exhibitions such as Ama and baby (Love and Drink), Dina Venue Art Space, Sheffield (UK), Photography Festival La Nuu, (Barcelona); Welljob: PhotoBeijing 2015; hindsight Last 10 years: The Women's Views Biennial (Madrid), as well as group exhibitions in various cultural institutions such as Old Truman Gallery (London), Centro Conde Duque (Madrid), La Cárcel, contemporary art center (Segovia), Matadero (Madrid), Instituto Cervantes (Madrid), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, (Birmingham), Hubei Museum of Art, (Wuhan) or Shoreditch Town hall, (London), among many others.
Awarded with several awards in her career, in addition to curating several projects, she has published some photobooks such as In the footsteps of Corín (self-published, 2020) well-job, (self-published 2015) Idylls (University of Cádiz 2013) HomeBeauty, (Blur editions 2006)
