Martín Soto Clíment
Martín Soto Clíment (b. 1977, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. The artist’s anthropomorphic sculptures utilise found objects– stockings, shoes, pearls, eggs– which are subtly manipulated, often adopting both fetish-like and strangely corporeal qualities. As well as evoking desire in the most visceral sense (that of sexuality), Soto Clíment’s work alludes to the drive of capitalist consumer culture, and the merchandising of sex. His works are both surreal representations of quotidian objects and windows to that most intimate of things: the body.
Recent solo exhibitions include: The Heart of Heaven / Blushing Paintings, La Volonté de la Volupté, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2023), La Volonté de la Volupté, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2023), El sendero del poeta, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City (2023), La Danza del Fiume, Casa Rusca Museum, Locarno, Switzerland (2023), El luminoso revoloteo de la mariposa blanca, Mercosur Biennial, Brazil (2022) and Gentle Stranger, Union Pacific, London (2022), amongst others. Selected group exhibitions include: I am a city of bones, ILY2 Gallery, Portland, OR, USA (2023), Seeing Touch, Hauser Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland (2020), Unstable Stillness, Perrotin Gallery, Hong Kong (2018) and Lanzarote, Union Pacific, London, United Kingdom (2016).
Gossip Bougainvillea Song, 2023, pantyhose, plexiglass, aluminium panel mounted on walnut frame, 63 x 125 x 15 cm
Brillant à travers leurs larmes #2, 2023, torn stockings on linen, mounted on black ash frame, 91 x 102 cm
Martín Soto Climent at Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland, 2023
Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland, 2023, installation view
Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland, 2023, installation view
Installation view: 'El luminoso revoloteo de la mariposa blanca' at Mercosur Biennial, 2022
El Luminoso Revoloteo de la Mariposa Blanca, 13th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2022
Alma Rasgada, 2022, polyptych of 12 boxes with ripped tights, maple frames, and museum glass 27.91 x 422.40 x 3.98 cm
‘La ascension recta del Sol, la Luna o Planetas’, 2021, ink, colour pencil and colour marker on paper, 23 x 17cm
Gossip / Geminis, 2021, pantyhose, frame and plexiglass mirror mounted in cedar wood box, 31 x 42 x 10cm
Gossip / Embrace, 2021, pantyhose, frame and plexiglass mirror mounted in mahogany wood box, 31 x 21 x 10 cm
Nube de Centellas (Cloud of Sparkles), 2020, pyroxylin on wooden panels, framed, 167 x 126.5 cm
‘In the Shadow’, 2019, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, installation view
‘Works and Days’, 2017, Atlantis, installation view
‘Works and Days’, 2017, Atlantis, installation view
De ces ciels brouillés #1, 2023, pencil drawing on aluminium panel, 115 x 120 cm
Martín Soto Climent at Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland, 2023
Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland, 2023, installation view
Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland, 2023, installation view
Installation view:'El luminoso revoloteo de la mariposa blanca' at Mercosur Biennial, 2022
El Luminoso Revoloteo de la Mariposa Blanca, 13th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2022
El Luminoso Revoloteo de la Mariposa Blanca, 13th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2022
Nuestro secreto es la puerta por donde la noche entra, 2022, tights, plywood, plexiglass, 49.09 x 33.31 x 5.31 in
Night mirror - glossy night 2, 2021, burnished charcoal and graphite on canvas, mounted on ply- wood panel, 40x25x6
Tales of the heart, 2020-22, graphite and acrylic transferred on linen, mounted on masonite panel, framed in walnut wood, 124 x 101 x 6cm
Origin of the Mountain, 2021, fishnet pantyhose on linen, 40.6 x 25.4 inches
‘In the Shadow’, 2019, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, installation view
‘Works and Days’, 2017, Atlantis, installation view
‘Works and Days’, 2017, Atlantis, installation view
Marea de Espuma, 2016, digital print on satin, 30 x 20 cm