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Photo: Luca S

Très bien éclairé

Deutschland-Premiere by Arantxa Martínez
In the frame of 9. Tanznacht Berlin 2016

In her new work, Arantxa Martinez creates innovative creatures out of images, devices and bodies. Martinez’s sensorial preoccupation with the body and its representational context has influenced her definition and perception of bodies themselves. She directs her interest toward hybrid forms and their ability to integrate and dissolve the idea of identity. In "Très bien éclairé”, her body emerges as a product of its own fiction and with its presence, transcends beyond itself.

Concept and Performance: Arantxa Martínez in collaboration with Sonia Noya and André Uerba | With support from María Jerez and her project What is third, Paz Rojo and the festival „Que puede un cuerpo“ (Madrid), Bulegoa (Bilbao), 3AM (Berlin) and Anto Rodríguez, Antonio Peñuelas, Carme Torrent, Chus Dominguez, Cristina Bustos, Diego Agulló, Elena Aitzkoa, Idurre Azkue, Ismael Peñuelas, Lola Rubio, Luca S, Quim Bigas Bassart and Silvia Zayas, William Wheeler, and Tanznacht Berlin.

Arantxa Martínez

Arantxa Martínez is a Berlin based artist, her work focuses on processes of identification, exchange and dependence between the body and its environment and questions performativity in relation to these processes. Some of her recent works are «Avant-Garten» (2017) and «This is Not Normal» (2021) with Juan Domínguez, as well as «Medusa Rise» (2019), and «From Behind All Over» (2022). As a performer she works with artists such as Thiago Granato, Kate McIntosch, Eszter Salamon, Sabine Zahn, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Alice Chauchat, Paz Rojo, Antonia Baehr, Deborah Hay, María Jerez, Petra Sabisch, Cullberg Ballet, Isabelle Schad or Velma, among others. Since 2015 she teaches regularly at the Stockholm University of the Arts  and Madrid (Máster en Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual).