Martin Soto Climent’s works are mostly made of found objects or simple materials composed to powerful yet subtle arrangements. Rather than securing the items, the artist balances them in order to create natural bondings. The objects – shoes, pearls, eggs, tights or hats – often bear a fetish-like character. The slight alteration of the materials and the smooth violence that forces them into their new form provides the sculptures with a sense of vitality and decay at the same time, reinvigorating them with a deep sensuality. Soto Climent’s production is the result of his enchantment of the inorganic. The artist examines the impersonal and neutral relationships that exist between things. Curtains, wheels, clothes completely dysfunctionalised and altered from their typical appearance, present themselves in all their physicality. The intrinsic qualities of the objects are strengthened by their union and by the association of meanings, which derive from them. Without being modified in their essence, they are placed side by side, bent or stuck together, generating emotional processes and the development of symbolical qualities.
Read MoreCliment is represented by T293, in Naples and Rome, Clifton Benevento in New York, and Karma International in Zurich. He has featured in group exhibitions at CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, MCA Chicago in Chicago and at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne.
A solo show is scheduled for July 2015 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
