MARTIN SOTO CLIMENT

DESIRE, 2021 FOLDED LEATHER CASES 9 × 8 × 11 CM, 8 × 8 × 10.5 CM, 7.5 × 8 × 11 CM, 8.5 × 8 × 10.5 CM COURTESY THE ARTIST & KARMA INTERNATIONAL

In his work, Martin Soto Climent recontextualizes found material into surrealist-inspired poetic objects. Lampshades, hats, spoons, or gloves carry the history and meaning of their previous life but at the same time are transformed into magical arrangements of immense beauty. Here, he uses eyeglasses etuis that he rearranges in such a way to create an imaginary tongue. Emphasizing the difference between pornography and sexuality, the artist states: “with pornography, it’s just the object; it’s obvious. Eroticism is not obvious. We can see a stone or the curve of a tree and feel a sexual impulse for something that is not human or even alive. eroticism moves you from inside, from the stomach, from the sex, and that’s why it is so uncomfortable.”