Edgar Martins - Black Holes and Other Inconsistencies

The Moth House, New York, 2002. First edition. Hardback.

Condition: Fine (in protective sleeve).

Produced in the final year of his MA degree in Photography and Fine Art at the Royal College of Art (London), Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies was conceived in response to Martins’ research on the theme of the metastization of the urban frontier and its impact on our understanding of the de-centred city.

‘If we’re no longer able to define what a city is, how are we to relate to it?’, asks Martins.

Produced almost entirely in peripheral regions in South-East China, Portugal and South Africa, Martins uses the ‘black hole’ in the landscape as a metaphor for reason at a point of exhaustion.

Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies highlights a point of resistance: resistance to the world of flux and flow that we live in; to a world haunted by mobility, intangibility and uncertainty.