The Cultural Center of Spain collaborates with the 2024 Edition of The Doral International Art Fair with the participation of the Canary Islands artist Emilia Martín Fierro. Las obras que la artista expondrá en la feria forman parte de la serie Mapas del Intersticio.

The Doral International Art Fair arises from the need to provide a quality artistic offer that covers different periods, from historical avant-garde to contemporary art. It seeks to bring together artists, gallery owners, curators, critics, collectors and art lovers in the same space every year with the purpose of enhancing multiculturalism and promoting art as a culture of peace, dialogue and social coexistence. It hopes to become one of the most important art fairs in the country. As an integral part of the art world ecosystem, the activities will have a triple function: cultural, academic and economic. On the one hand, it will bring together gallerists and collectors from around the world, and on the other hand, it will allow art lovers to see important works and discover emerging artists, generating a platform for visibility. Our offer includes qualitatively outstanding works from the most demanded and influential collection areas, which are brought together by renowned gallery owners to consolidate transcendent exhibition on new trends, new artistic realities and quality art.

At Doral Cultural Arts Center – 8363 NW 53rd St, Doral, FL 33166.

*Free parking only Saturday and Sunday

Tickets: https://ticketplate.com/checkout/doral-international-art-fair-2411071200

EMILIA MARTÍN FIERRO

Artist Statement

I am interested in the ideas of ‘edge’ and ‘interstice’, the edges of things and of the concepts we handle, the unclassifiable in-between spaces.

As an islander, the visual metaphor of the wet shore, that changing space in which the sea advances and recedes, serves me to think about other themes such as the border, and in general the difference between representation, static, structured, and life itself as an event, mobile, changing and ungraspable. In the series ‘Maps of the Interstice’ I use the image of the treetops, and I ‘dig’ into the painting, removing or adding layers of gauze with paint and photography, which form reflections and transparencies, hybridizing. I allude to the intermediate layers that form thousands of leaves, territories impossible to map, because they are traversed by

the fleeting instant of light and time in the tinkling of the leaves, lightly occurring.

Biography

Emilia Martín Fierro (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1965) is a Spanish visual artist and a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Over three decades she has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, the most recent being:

-2024, ‘Recent Memory. Contemporary practices in the CAAM collection’. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain. Group exhibition curated by Cristina Déniz, Mari Carmen Rodríguez and Beatriz Sánchez.

-2023, ‘In-betweenness’. Solo exhibition at LnS Gallery, Miami, USA.

-2021, ‘Between membranes. Walking on the edge’. Solo exhibition at Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

She has participated in biennials such as the International Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal, (Dak'art 08, Canary Islands Pavilion, curated by Clara Muñoz and Celestino Mesa).

Her work has been acquired by the Centro de Arte Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, T.E.A., and the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, C.A.A.M., Gran Canaria, Spain.