1990, lives and works at Quito, Ecuador

Martina Miño Pérez (Ecuador, 1990) is a visual artist and researcher who works between Helsinki and Quito. Her work focuses on creating “incarnations” and “immersions” that use taste, smell and touch as essential tools of interpretation of various types of sensitive languages. Her pieces often involve the “de-solidification” of the work or the “dissolution” of the visible object and its internalization as a transforming device. Her research positions itself as what Rosalind E. Krauss defines as counter-visual practices, which, in the face of the “totalitarian luminosity of the modern gaze, use the poetics of blindness to locate themselves in them “against the light” and promote content that goes beyond what is visible. She uses the poetics of “digestion” as a metaphor for the assimilation of concepts and her material research explores her poetic potential.

Martina recently won the V Edition of the Brazil Prize in the Contemporary Art Center of Quito. She has exhibited her work in Finland, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Estonia, Mexico, and Ecuador. She has shown her work in spaces such as Proyecto N.A.S.A.L (Ecuador), The Institute of Endotic Research (Berlin); Pori Biennale IV (Finland), Supermarket Art Fair (Sweden), Arte Actual FLACSO (Ecuador) and at the Center for Contemporary Art in Quito.

The artist participated in Pivô Pesquisa 2023.