Shelter in Japan. Otilia Martin's experience as an artist in Japan
An art chronicle about the co-working experience with international artists in Futtsu (Japan)L’ombre japonaise, and the shortfilm “Olivia”, exhibited in the Masaru Makii Gallery in Tokyo
The installation “L’ombre japonaise” -which I worked on during the Symposium last July-and the shortfilm Olivia, have been exhibited in the Masaru Makii Art Gallery in Tokyo. Here are some pictures:
L’ombre japonaise was exhibited in a room entirely dedicated to my work, which makes me feel very proud and grateful.
Shibuya rainy day
Hi! I just uploaded my first digital images here. I took them after the symposium, when I left Futtsu and headed to Tokyo. I spent there four days on my own, except in the nights, because I stayed at my good friend’s Tomoko’s house (ともこさん、どもありがとう。フェングシュイはよかったです!). Being alone in Tokyo, having the pleasure to look everything with no pressures, no conversations, no protocols, no rushes…Being on my own is what I really needed. It is what I always need.
L’ombre japonaise
This is the video of the work-in-progress of L’ombre japonaise, the installation I did during the symposium. It is a step-by-step video…it seems a tutorial!!! So, if any of you would like to do your own ombre japonaise, you know how to do it!! Mines is ready!!
The opening day
Finally, and after a week in which I spent the nights dreaming about the flight connections between Tokyo and Barcelona -which becomes quite tiring- I have a new video ready. This is the video of the (intense and exhausting day of July the 19th…the opening day). I hope you enjoy it!
Yellow walls

Coming soon!!
I am back to Barcelona, trying to process not only the videos I am working in, but also the whole artistic and personal experience, changing the snoring noises for drank people’s noise.
I have almost finished the video of the opening party with some remarkable images of the woman drum team who played during the opening and I plan to upload it during the weekend, so…keep in touch!!!
Unreal amniotic fluid
This embryo is leaving the unreal amniotic fluid in which it has felt once more real.
Strange feelings in Japan. This should be Mars and I shoul feel like an alien. But I dont. Maybe I feel more comfortable in an alien world, and thats why from here, I see the rest of the world as something foreing to me.
El carromato
Manhana vamos al Instituto Cervantes, a presentar este simposio, y sobre todo, a ver si tienen una programacion cultural donde podamos hacer cosas. Espero que hoy me de tiempo al menos a editar algunas imagenes de video con la instalacion L`ombre japonaise, porque no podre hacer nada mas.
Mi ordenador esta ya en las ultimas, apenas puedo editar las fotos, y mucho menos video, por eso me cuesta tanto ultimamente ilustrar los posts con imagenes.
Por el momento, voy a terminar de desayunar y quiero ir a Ginza, y luego a Harajuku, a hacer fotos.
Shibuya by day
Some pics of my wanderings of yesterday. All pictures included in this post are property of Otilia Martin.

Note. I am sure you have realized that there are some mistakes in the writing of the posts. I am really sorry. I am using a tiny Japanese computer, with a Japanese keyboard, and I write during the night, so I am quite tired. I am sorry for these mistakes.
My brand new view
Me he comprado mi primera camara digital (chispas) aqui, en Tokio. Lo he pensado mucho, porque deshacerse de la incorrecta belleza de lo analogico me cuesta. Sobre todo cuando has tenido un romance tan intenso con la Lomo como yo. Pero como en todas las historias donde hay una gran dosis de pasion, a nosotros (a la Lomo y a mi) s enos ha roto un poco.

Llevo un tiempo en crisis on la fotografia, pensando que me repito, que si en su dia alucine con los desenfoques y las texturas, ahora ya no me sorprenden. Me siguen gustando. Mi vision de miope empedernida tiene su reflejo en estas fotos, pero no puedo conformarme con hacer una y otra vez lo mismo, encajada en un concepto que para mi esta manido. Va en contra de mis principios (y mis finales).Asi que inicio una nueva andadura con la conciencia de saber que sera dificil que aporte algo nuevo en el fascinante mundo de la fotografia, porque tengo la impresion de que es la camara la que te maneja a ti y no al reves. Y todo el mundo tiene camaras digitales, y es dificil que nos sorprendan. Read the rest of this entry »



















