Martinez, Yael

Yael Martinez Luciernagas / Fireflies [2025 LTD 1ST EDITION - FINE]

This Book is True / Magnum, 2025. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This Book is True / Magnum, 2025. Hardcover with gatefold covers. First Edition, First Printing. Limited to only 1000 copies issued worldwide. 10 x 9 inches. Filled with color photographic images throughout. The work began in 2013 after three members of the artist's family disappeared. This tragedy began an investigation into the pervasive violence of organised crime in the region, how it infiltrates daily life and transforms the spirit of a place. Martinez later spent time alongside other families with missing loved ones. Through these encounters, dots were connected beyond the artist's immediate family and across borders into Honduras, Brazil, and the US, forming a constellation imbued with the shared experience of endemic violence. Throughout the work, images are threaded together by diaristic notes from the field. They were written by Martinez as he grappled with the range of emotions presented in the aftermath of loss. We don�t see death in Luci�rnaga, but its omnipresence is felt throughout, lingering in the shadows of each photograph. And yet there is always a sense of hope that informs the making of this work. Between 2019 to 2023, Martinez began a series of interventions into his photographs, piercing holes through the prints and then backlighting them. Bright rays emanate through the pictures in free flowing shapes, throwing light against a dark backdrop. In this process the light metamorphosizes with the scenes depicted and conjures an alchemy where something restorative, tentatively optimistic and resilient occurs. BOOK CONDITION: Fine/As New - still sealed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. As new. Item #5652

Price: $200.00