Born in Almería, Spain, and raised in a mestizo context, Sergio Martínez developed from an early age a sustained attention toward the margins, alterity, and forms of exclusion that traverse social and cultural systems. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca) and has resided in New York for seven years, a city from which he articulates a practice situated between visual research and exhibition construction.
His work is not organized by autonomous disciplines, but by specific projects formalised through painting, installation, and photography, integrating text, archive, writing, and audiovisual materials. Installation functions as a structural axis from which works relate spatially and conceptually, giving rise to exhibitions understood as systems rather than accumulations of pieces.
Martínez works with image and language as technologies that produce conduct. He starts from photography but abandons it when it ceases to be sufficient, shifting to other media when reality begins to be named, registered, and organized. He is interested in the moment when meaning ceases to be experience to become structure, when language organizes the body and memory is fixed as a guide.