Martin's 'daydream machine' films fuse fantasy and reality in seductive jumbles of emotion and physical experience
A topsy-turvy sensuality tumbles through Daria Martin's seductive films. In her 16mm productions from the past decade, pale flesh has writhed against sweeping banisters, been caressed by robots and shared the pain of electronic goods. It's not just people who find themselves caught up in inter-species mismatches. Art mediums mingle and psychological states are given a tactile reality.
The UK-based American artist has described her films as "daydream machines". They're spaces where fantasies can be freely let loose. And it's creating odd couplings of people and things, dalliances with art, dance and film history, or crafting cinematic love letters to outdated culture, that Martin is interested in.
Trained as a painter, she first made her name with a trilogy of films that brought modernist art into a realm of playful make-believe. Birds, from...
A topsy-turvy sensuality tumbles through Daria Martin's seductive films. In her 16mm productions from the past decade, pale flesh has writhed against sweeping banisters, been caressed by robots and shared the pain of electronic goods. It's not just people who find themselves caught up in inter-species mismatches. Art mediums mingle and psychological states are given a tactile reality.
The UK-based American artist has described her films as "daydream machines". They're spaces where fantasies can be freely let loose. And it's creating odd couplings of people and things, dalliances with art, dance and film history, or crafting cinematic love letters to outdated culture, that Martin is interested in.
Trained as a painter, she first made her name with a trilogy of films that brought modernist art into a realm of playful make-believe. Birds, from...
- 3/15/2012
- by Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
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