Lara Martínez (Esplugues de Llobregat, 1989)

At the age of 10, I found some poems I had written a few years earlier. Seeing them made me so angry that I tore them up. I liked to burn things at that time, so maybe I did that. This memory, which was once full of regret, is now more indifferent to me; however, I miss that seven-year-old me who wrote cheesy poems and who from time to time reappears.

My name is Lara Martínez and I was born in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona) in 1989. I studied graphic design, communication and culture, and I have worked in the artistic-cultural sector in different roles. I am currently a resident at Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació, and I have just finished the residency grant in mediation at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica (2022-2024).

I started in art as a graphic designer, but over time I have worked as a producer, communications technician, artist, cultural manager and workshop leader. I'm a multidisciplinary artist because I do many things at the same time without being an expert in anything. Since 2015, I've been making “fanzines”, and in 2023 I published the book “Diente Muerto” with the Escriptura Silvestre grant from Hangar and La Escocesa, published by Edicions La Escocesa (Barcelona).

I have long been reciting texts, mine and others, at random. Sometimes they are poems, sometimes not. I like to work frugally, recycling ideas and materials whenever I can. I have recently started different sound projects: Patty i Selma, a DJ set with Wanda del Rio; Lora, an improvisation group with Laura Paz; and Bolsa, a no-wave-punk band with Marisa.
I take part in creative processes inside and outside artistic institutions, producing drawings, videos, poems, texts, ‘performances’, sound pieces, collages, etc. Nevertheless, of all the things I know, I choose summer (Bruno Soberon, eleven years old, Argentina; a phrase I got to know thanks to Tatiana Donoso, who heard it in a podcast). Besides summer, I like participating in collective creation processes and meeting with people to learn to be together and think about how to do things a little better.

Presentation updated in September 2024