Ariana Martinez is a multimedia artist making images, objects, and audio documentary. Their practice investigates processes of sensory perception and the simultaneously social and spatial process of navigation.
Ariana’s current work across printmaking, audio, and video searches for ways translate sensory experiences as well as the environmental phenomena that provoke them. Paresthesias and petrichor, electrical hum and visual snow, barometric pressure and refracted light—sensations become layers of granulated texture, audio files stripped of their middle frequencies, optically-mixed color, stuttering stop-motion, and offset printed line. Concerned with the ways physical environments receive or resist non-normative bodies, Ariana’s unstable images and asynchronous sounds engage feelings of placeless-ness, disorientation, and the inventive place-making that emerges from necessity.
Ariana’s interest in print media, terrestrial broadcast, and easily transmitted digital files of various kinds comes from a desire to make slippery work— work that subverts physical and imagined borders, evades capture, and lives many lives across many worlds.
