Sjoerd Martens

Installation photos from the Patty Morgan show Klas 1b at De School, Amsterdam.

Everyday we are confronted by more and more artificiality in our surroundings. Our natural spaces are slowly transforming into a mise en scène that reflects our human activities. Simultaneously, it can also be seen as a device that we employ as we desire. ‘Earthskin’ is a botanical artwork, a video sculpture consisting of flora and artifacts extracted from our everyday lives. Not only do these elements exist in the grand scheme of things, but they also form their own microcosms. The viewer is brought into an unfamiliar environment through micrography and collaging. Organic and synthetic bodies circulate seamlessly, creating an unknown habitat and breathing space. What we were first unable to perceive, is now immortalized in a new digital creation.

4032×3024 / 4:3
HD color
00:19:50
Stereo

In commission of TivoliVredenburg a 150m² videowork is made for Canvas. On show november 2019 - march 2020. More info can be found on the website of TivoliVredenburg.
Installation shot at Canvas opening night.

In collaboration with fashion designer Sassy Lassy (a.k.a. 潔廁林)

See more of the Exclusive healing energy project in Zhejiang.

In commission of Nous'klaer Audio for upsammy’s LP Wild Chamber

"In many ways Spring seems to be the perfect seasonal match for upsammy: no matter the tempo nor intensity, her style is colourful, restorative and carries a tangible promise of new beginnings. So Wild Chamber arrives at the right time, but it is an evergreen package – eight songs to slot into different situations, to speak to different moods, yet come from the same heart. A mini-LP that captures dawn mist, reflecting-pool shimmer, and occasional flashes of brilliant blue light. Swells of bass sag and yawn, time signatures switch up and break down, drums stutter and charge, and gossamer melodic trails are traced like ice skates atop a thawing lake. Innumerable shards of ideas are present, yet the music is airy and uncluttered. Wild Chamber is upsammy at her most pure, sketching sonic miniatures with a precise eye and an inquisitive ear quite unlike anyone else’s right now." https://youtu.be/R1mIX76GHfs Music video For vinyl: fanlink.to/wildchamber Text from above by Gabriel Szatan

For the exhibition Self-publish or be damned, I’ve made a printed zine (16 pages) filled with photos from this fall captured in Sweden. Together with some flora and artifacts scans of the Earthskin project. On show from Nov 29th – Dec 21th at Academiegalerie, Utrecht.

Installation photo at Garage Noord, Amsterdam.

Mixed media printed on plexiglass and aluminium.

(selection of works) Two different materials and perspectives meet each other in the series Scenery of Japan (2018). Documentary photography printed on Fuji Digital Professional DPII photo paper and collages of mixed media printed on plexiglass and aluminum. They bring exposure and a closer look at the immortalization of the non-recordable, that will be for once physical. Be welcome, for as long as it may last.

In commission of NDSM, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (RE:VIVE)

"For Amsterdam MuseumNight 2018, a special collaboration between NDSM and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (RE:VIVE) will bring a floating historical experience to the canals of Amsterdam that poetically re-imagines the life of one of the most famous ocean liners ever built in Amsterdam, the m.s. Oranje. Visual artist Sjoerd Martens and musician Thessa Torsing (upsammy) will debut a new audiovisual piece aboard a floating cinema that transforms the history of the m.s. Oranje. The piece will be a creative, immersive experience of this famous ocean liner that served as a wartime hospital ship, refuge transport and luxury cruise ship that burst into flames twice and ultimately met its demise at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean."

Image - Sjoerd Martens Music - Thessa Torsing (upsammy) Original footage - The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Text by RE:VIVE - Read more

Mixed media on semi-transparent polyester fabrics, video projection, soundscape

Installation: approx. 75x194x145cm HD color 00:22:51 Stereo