Marc Martin
Marc Martin lives in Paris and Berlin. His work focuses on the links between poetry and pornography. His pictures highlight the darker zones of erotic play, and confront our notions of beauty and repulsion, of good and bad taste.
Marc Martin questions the genre by playing with stereotyped roles, fantasized virility, where the boundaries of reality are blurred. The many truths are always lurking behind the scenes. Obscenity and candour exist side by side in Marc Martin’s images. He is fond of pigs and flowers.
Martin’s book "Les Tasses – Toilettes publiques, Affaires privées" was awarded the prestigious "Prix Sade du Livre d’Art" in 2020. In 2022, he received the "Trophée Livres Hedbo" for book "Beau Menteur."
Recent exhibitions:
Beau Menteur, 2021/2022 – Eisenherz, Berlin – Galerie Mille Lieux, Paris
Les Tasses, 2020 – LaVallée, Brussels / 2019 – Point Ephémère, Paris
The Eroticism of Things, 2018 – Museum der Dinge, Berlin
Forbidden, 2017 – Project Space Leslie-Lohman Museum, New-York
Fenster zum Klo, 2017 – Schwules Museum, Berlin
Recent books:
Beau Menteur, 2021
Proust aux Tasses, 2020
Glory Hole, 2020
Les Tasses – Toilettes publiques, Affaires privées, 2019
Public Toilets & Private Affairs, 2017
Fallos, 2016
Dur Labeur, 2015
Marc Martin, Steppenbrand, 2014.
40x60cm, inked print mounted on dibond. 1/5