MARTON ROBINSON (Costa Rica, 1979) is a visual artist with a degree in visual arts and communication from the National University of Costa Rica and a master’s degree in visual arts from the University of Southern California (USA). His work explores multiple languages ​​to investigate common sense and critical discourse that specify Latin American black culture in the broader context of the African diaspora. He has exhibited individually at the venue TEOR/éTica (San Jose) and in collective and film festivals in Canada, Costa Rica, United States, France and Mexico.

Using chalk, Palmer draws on a black wall a mural composed of various visual elements of African cultural background in NO LE DIGAS A MI MANO DERECHA LO QUE HACE LA IZQUIERDA (2019). Once finished, the mural’s precise lines and complex composition are gradually erased by the artist’s body, in a performance ending in exhaustion caused by his rubbing against the wall. What remains from those two actions is a smudged wall and the video documentation of the process, in which construction and deconstruction become continuous, complementary and, above all, willful and ineradicable movements.