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.
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